Deena Chalabi is a curator, writer and connector. She was the inaugural Barbara and Stephan Vermut Associate Curator of Public Dialogue at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the founding Head of Strategy at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, where she co-edited, with Wassan Al-Khudhairi and Nada Shabout, Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art. Her writing has appeared in publications including Bidoun, The New Inquiry, and the Journal of Visual Culture.

Brandon Shimoda is a yonsei poet/writer, and the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently The Grave on the Wall (City Lights), which received the PEN Open Book Award. He co-edited, with Thom Donovan, To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books). His front door faces a mountain.

Denise Newman is a poet and translator based in San Francisco. Her fifth poetry collection, The Redesignation of Paradise, is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press. She has translated two novels by Inger Christensen and the short story collection, Baboon, by Naja Marie Aidt, which won the PEN Translation Prize. She teaches at the California College of the Arts.