Samantha Schaefer received her MFA in Poetry as a Follett Fellow at Columbia College Chicago. She has worked as co-editor of Black Tongue Review and attended as Writer in Residence at Brushcreek Foundation for the Arts, as well as Working Writer in Residence at The Poetry Farm. Her poetry has received two Pushcart Prizes and has appeared or is forthcoming in TYPO, Columbia Poetry Review, Ghost Ocean Magazine, Brill | Sense publishers anthology, Science-Based Vulnerability: Scientists and Poets #RESIST.

Xiao Wang is a Chinese painter who lives and works in the US. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland where he received his BFA degree in Painting and Printmaking. He continued his study at San Francisco Art Institute and earned his MFA degree in Painting. Wang currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.​ Wang has shown internationally in Europe and California. In 2014, he received the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award. During recent years he was awarded 1st place for the Anne Bremer Memorial Prize and the silver award for the Art Forward Contest. In 2016, he was nominated for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA award. His work has been featured in publications such as Hi-Fructose Magazine, Fresh Paint Magazine, and New American Paintings. Wang has also attended artist residency programs at MASS MoCA (MA), the Vermont Studio Center (VT), Root Division (CA) and Art Point (CA).