Raquel Salas Rivera is the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another country), (Birds LLC, 2019), among other collections of poetry. is a bilingual Puerto Rican poet who writes in Spanish and English, focusing on the experience of being a migrant to the United States and of identifying as a queer Puerto Rican and Philadelphian of non-binary gender.
Daniel Borzutzky is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015), Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions, 2015); and The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011). He lives in Chicago.