As a writer, director, music artist, and DJ, Melanie Mitchell is a modern-day Renaissance woman. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, she grew up immersed in the arts and developed an early passion for writing and storytelling. Inspired by The Twilight Zone from a young age, she became fascinated with television and the power of stories to explore the strange, philosophical, and the unknown with underlying commentary on society and the human condition. Before college, Mitchell

Dr. Malika Booker is a UK-based British-Caribbean poet and the award-winning author of Breadfruit and Pepper Seed. Malika Booker is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage, and co-founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective). The Anthology - Two Young, Two Black, Too Different, Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen was recently published to celebrate Malika Poetry Kitchen’s twentieth anniversary . Her p

Mofiyinfoluwa O. is a Nigerian writer living between Lagos and London. Her work is concerned with the interior of African|Black womanhood. She is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and The Founder of The Abebi AfroNonfiction Foundation. Her work has appeared in Guernica , Black Warrior Review , Variant Lit , Pleiades , Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her work has been selected as a Best American Essay Notable Entry (2022) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She i