Dani Burlison (she/her) is the creator/editor of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body, and the author of Some Places Worth Leaving. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly and a regular contributor at Yes! Magazine, Chicago Tribune, KQED, and elsewhere. Her journalism, fiction, and personal essays can also be found at Ms. Magazine, Earth Island Journal, The Rumpus, Portland Review, Hip Mama Magazine, and in various anthologies and zines. Dani teaches and lives on unceded Southern Pomo land in California.

Margaret Elysia Garcia (she/her) is the author of the poetry collection the daughterland, of the short story collection Graft, and the poetry chapbook Burn Scars. She writes a history column for High Country Life, a regional California magazine covering the eastern Sierra Nevada.

Manjula Martin is author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History. She is coauthor of Fruit Trees for Every Garden, which won the 2020 American Horticultural Society Book Award. Martin edited the anthology Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, and she was managing editor of the National Magazine Award-winning literary journal Zoetrope: All-Story. She lives in western Sonoma County, California.