Emily Kalish is a Los Angeles based filmmaker. She received her BA in Culture and Media from the New School and her MFA in Film Production from USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she specialized in cinematography. Emily is currently a freelance cinematographer shooting projects in NYC, Panama, and Paris.

Luisa A. Igloria is the author of What is Left of Wings, I Ask, selected by Natasha Trethewey for the 2018 Center for Book Arts Poetry Letterpress Chapbook Prize; The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal), Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Utah State University Press, 2014), and other books. She teaches on the faculty of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University.