Apol Sta. Maria is a visual artist and comics creator. Among his comics creations are Alamat ng Panget and Many Other, N. Tablado, and Ano? In 2013, his first solo exhibit, titled Oil on Canvas, was held at the Liongoren Gallery in Manila, Philippines.
Marlon Hacla is a programmer, writer, and photographer. His first book, May Mga Dumadaang Anghel sa Parang (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2010), was published as part of UBOD New Authors Series II. His second book, Glossolalia, was published by High Chair in 2013. He also released two chapbooks, Labing-anim na Liham ng Kataksilan (2014) and Melismas (2016). In 2017, he created Estela Vadal, the first robot poet in Filipino.
Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, including The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), and Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015). Widely anthologized, her short stories appear in Conjunctions, Tin House, and World Literature Today.
