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.

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.