Marie-Andrée Gill is a master​ of letters student at ​the University of Québec ​at ​Chicoutimi. ​Gill was born in the Ilnu community in​ ​Mashteuiatsh, ​and her writing​ ​blends kitsch and existentialism, ​​combining​ ​Quebecois and​ ​Ilnu identities. She has published two collections at La Peuplade,​ ​Béante​ ​(2012) and Frayer (2015), forthcoming in English translation from BookThug.

Kristen Renee Miller is a poet, playwright, and translator living in Louisville, Kentucky. Her poems have appeared in Tinderbox, The Madison Review, The Louisville Review, and elsewhere, and her plays have received awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She is an editor and educational programming director at Sarabande Books.