Kevin Killian was a poet, author, editor, and playwright. For decades, he was a charismatic participant in San Francisco's New Narrative writing circle. He was the co-founder of the Poets Theater, an influential poetry, stage, and performance group, and co-edited My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2009) with Peter Gizzi.

Dodie Bellamy is novelist, poet, and essayist, who, in her own words, champions “the vulnerable, the fractured, the disenfranchised, the fucked-up.” Her books include two collections published by Semiotext(e): Bee Reaved (2021) and When the Sick Rule the World (2015). With Kevin Killian she co-edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 (Nightboat, 2017). She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction.

Hedi El Kholti is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. He is coeditor of Semiotext(e), alongside Chris Kraus, and editor of Semiotext(e)’s “occasional intellectual journal,” Animal Shelter.