Quentin Parker is a second-year MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona. He's originally from Bowie, Maryland but currently lives in Tucson, Arizona where he works as the Editor-in-Chief of the Sonora Review, Creative Nonfiction Editor of 149 Review, and teaches undergraduate-level creative writing and composition courses. His fiction has appeared in Moon City Review, and his nonfiction has appeared in The Tusculum Review, The MacGuffin, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. 

Khansa Kubra is a poet from Kashmir. A former SAS fellow, she is a MFA student in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. Her work explores thees of identity, heritage, and nuances of belonging. 

Hayeon Lee is a writer from Los Angeles, born in Seoul. They are a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar and a rising second-year MFA student in creative writing at the University of Arizona. At the University of Arizona, they serve as Editor-in-Chief of Sonora Review (26-27) and received the Minnie Torrance Award in Poetry. You can find them at hleewrites.blog and in front of a maimai machine, their current obsession.

Born in the Midwest and raised in New England, Clare Boyle writes towards (ir)reverence with a TMI (too much information) aesthetic. They believe in harm reduction and the complete decriminalization of drug use and sex work. Clare's literary nonfiction has appeared with Majuscule, and they've published reporting with The Appeal, Bolts, and WHYY's The Pulse. There is no distance he would not travel for good karaoke or a water slide. 

The Borderlands Earth Care Youth (BECY) inspires and trains the next generation of land stewards by hiring culturally diverse youth living on the US/Mexico borderlands to restore the trans-national watersheds they call home. Youth work with rock, wood, seeds, hands, and hearts to return flowing waters and riverside ecosystems to the arid borderlands.

Salvavision helps refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers navigate a global migration crisis by providing aid & resources, while building stronger communities in Arizona and abroad. We also have partnerships to support returnees who have been deported to their home countries.

The Kino Border Initiative (KBI) is a binational organization that works in the area of migration and is located in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The KBI’s vision is to help make humane, just, workable migration between the U.S. and Mexico a reality. Its mission is to promote US/Mexico border and immigration policies that affirm the dignity of the human person and a spirit of bi-national solidarity.