Madeleine Moon-Chun (she/her) is a writer from Georgia. A Scholastic Art & Writing Awards national medalist, she is an alum of the Ellipsis Writing Workshop and is published or forthcoming in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Fleeting Daze, and Mukoli: The Magazine For Peace. Her poetry collection Not Made of Lines: Poetic Meditations on Time, Space, & Other Matters was published by Eastwind Books of Berkeley. She loves writing due to its ability to showcase the most beautiful and vulnerable parts of being human.

Benjamin Moon-Chun (he/him) is a high school freshman from Georgia. He is a winner of the international Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition and has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for his flash fiction and poetry. He enjoys neologisms and is currently working on a mystery novel.

Lexi Markham (she/they) is a sophomore at Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia. In her free time, she loves to write poetry, read, and be outside. In 2024, she joined VOX ATL Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador Program, Vox Teen Staff, and the Vox ATL board of directors. Lexi is passionate about amplifying youth voices and creating space for self expression. She is dedicated to spreading awareness about mental health experiences through spoken word and personal experience. She hopes to inspire others to exist more authentically and truthfully. 

Nayla Kanaan (they/them) is 18 years old. They have been writing poetry since elementary school and focus their poetry mostly on social justice issues. They have published poetry and essays. They like Pokémon and playing dungeons and dragons. 

Sophia Huynh is a senior at Columbia University pursuing a degree in Political Science and a minor in East Asian Language Studies.  Involved in a multitude of organizing events centered around the diaspora of the Asian American experience, she is the senior advisor of Columbia's Asian American Alliance as well as the recruitment chair for Columbia's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM).  With an ambition to spotlight Asian American voices and highlight how journalism and literature can change the American perspective, she is honored to be a part of the advisory board of Student Pedagogies for Social Change.