Faye Hadfield is an Artist from the northeast of England who attained a 1st class hons degree in Contemporary art from Bath Spa University in England (2015-2018), during her studies at Bath Spa Faye participated in the Erasmus program to study abroad at the Kunst University in Linz, Austria (2017) where she spent one semester. Post University, Faye continued her practice by participating in residencies at 44AD Artspace in Bath in the UK and a residency at the ClayShed in Bristol also in the UK. Faye is now studying ceramics as a graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Mariana Tejeda is a multidisciplinary artist with two MFA degrees from the University of Iowa, one in Stage Management and one in Spanish Creative Writing. Mariana is a second-year candidate in the MFA in choreography. In 2021, was awarded the University of Iowa MFA Summer Fellowship to create The Laphin MirRoooar a poetry exhibition where she invited artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to reinterpret her poems. Mariana has 20 years of experience working in theater and opera productions in Mexico and the US and international touring.

Mansoura Ez-Eldin منصورة عز الدين (fiction; nonfiction, editor; Egypt), nominated by Beirut39 among the 39 Best Arab-language Writers Under 40, is an award-winning and widely translated author of 10 books. -خطوات في شنغهاي [Walks in Shanghai: on the Meaning of Distance Between Egypt and China] won the 2021 Ibn Battuta Prize for travel literature; in 2014, the Sharjah International Book Fair nominated her  جبل الزمرد  [Emerald Mountain] as Best Arabic Novel. Her writing has appeared, among other places, in The New York Times, A Public Space, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Granta. She is the managing editor of the cultural weekly Akhbar Al-Adab and, since 2003, its book review editor. A grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State funds her participation.