LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs works with words, sound, video and bodies. She has been published in Ploughshares, Jubilat, Fence, LA Review, Palabra, and Black Renaissance Noir among others. Her performance work has been featured at The Kitchen, Exit Art, Recess Activities Inc, The Whitney and MoMa. As a curator and artistic director, she has staged events at El Museo del Barrio, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Brecht Forum, Symphony Space, Dixon Place, and BAM Café. She is the recipient of several awards including Cave Canem, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The Laundromat Project, and Millay Colony. She along with Greg Tate, is the co-editor of yoYO/SO4 Magazine. Her poetry collection, TwERK, was recently published by Belladonna.

Harmony Holiday is a poet, choreographer, archivist, and myth/scientist. She is the author of Negro League Baseball (2011) Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues (2014), and Hollywood Forever: An Autobiography of Malik Flavors (forthcoming 2015). She curates the poetics archive, Afrosonics and lives in New York and Los Angeles.

Edward Toney is an African-American Poet, writer and applications chemist residing in Brooklyn N.Y . He is a member of AWP (Association of Writers and Writers program), a member of the Hot Poets Collective poetry writers group, and ongoing Cave Canem workshop participant. Ed attended The Louis Reyes Rivera workshops (one of his mentors) at Sista’s Place in Brooklyn for many years. He has been featured and read at numerous poetry venues throughout the boroughs. Ed was recently published in African Voices 20th Anniversary Magazine; a chapbook: Of Fire of Iron, published by The Hot Poets collective; The Poets Exchange anthology and Young’s Men Perspective magazine. He is working on completion of his first poetry manuscript entitled, Nicks in the Tongue.