Alice Sola Kim’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed Magazine, The Cut, McSweeney's, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and other publications. She is a 2016 Whiting Award winner and has received grants from MacDowell and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Currently, Kim teaches speculative fiction in the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and the MA Writing program at Johns Hopkins University.

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature. Katabasis was published on August 26th.

Colby Minifie currently stars on the television series The Boys and its spinoff Gen V. She has appeared on Broadway in The Pillowman, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Six Degrees Of Separation; Off-Broadway in Epiphany, Punk Rock, Close Up Space, Landscape of the Body, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Her film and television credits include Fear the Walking Dead, Law & Order, Glee, Nurse Jackie, The Blacklist, The Michael J. Fox Show, Black Box, Deep Powder, Camilla Dickinson, The Greatest, The Winning Season, Don’t Think Twice, Paterno, Submission, The Super, An Actor Prepares, Radium Girls, Madam Secretary, Dietland, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, and Homebody. Minifie can currently be seen in The Surrender, Lovebug, and the forthcoming short You Really Like Me!