A native New Yorker, SABRINA HAYEEM-LADANI has been a poet and performer for more than 20 years, and her work has been performed across the United States, as well as in Europe. She was an invited author at the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica and is a former member of the louderARTS Project.

ROBERT GIBBONS is a poet living in New York City. He is originally from Belle Glade, Florida and has been in the City since 2007 in search of his muse -- Langston Hughes. He is published in Brooklyn Poets Anthology; Paragram; Promethean; Turtle Island Quarterly; Deep Water Literary; Killer Whale; and Suisun Valley.

DÉLANA R.A. DAMERON holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from New York University where she was a Goldwater Hospital Writer’s workshop fellow, and.a B.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a strong interest in the intersections of history and literature.