INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, is LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION and A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California.

HANNAH BAE is a journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement. She is a 2020 winner of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and a 2021 and 2022 Peter Taylor fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops. She has received fellowships, teaching opportunities and residencies from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Kundiman, Ragdale, the Peter Bullough Foundation and other organizations. She's on Twitter at @hanbae and on Instagram at @hannahbae.