Brock is an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published articles on racial representations in video games, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His book, Distributed Blackness: African-Amerian Cybercultures, takes a thought-provoking look a digital subculture.

Carmine Di Biase is Professor Emeritus of English at Jacksonville State University, where he taught for over thirty years. He earned his PhD in Renaissance Literature from Ohio State University and has published widely in both English and Italian. His scholarly work includes studies on Shakespeare and his Italian contemporaries, literary translation, and modern & contemporary Italian writers.

Hughes is a poet, entrepreneur, and adjunct professor. He has eight publications including his publication, Spread: Through the Fractured Lens of Quarantine, released by Pen & Leaf Press. His literature often explores themes of urban life aimed at encouraging civil discourse.

Judson is a novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright who grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the Department Chair of Humanities and Fine Arts for Jarvis Christian College. He writes character-driven fiction, poetry, performance poetry, plays, and music.

McIntire, Poet Laureate of Lucas County, Ohio, has authored three chapbooks, including Semidomesticated, (rereleased through Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in 2022) which won Red Flag Poetry’s 2020 chapbook contest. She is the poetry editor at Of Rust and Glass, Treasurer at Ohio Poetry Association and hosts Uncloistered Poetry from Toledo, Ohio.