Marta Lucía Vargas is a poet and a teacher. She is a founding contributing editor of Aster(ix) Journal, a literary transnational feminist arts journal, and co-founder of WILL: Women in Literature in Letters. Currently, she serves as Managing and Content Editor for HTI Open Plaza, an online platform within the Hispanic Theological Initiative. Her poetry and creative nonfiction works have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion and Birth (Haymarket Books, 2023), The Lake Rises: poems to and for our bodies of water (Stockport Flats, 2013), and the chapbook For the Crowns of Your Head (Poets for Ayiti, 2010). Vargas has taught writing and literature at Hunter College and at New York Institute of Technology. She was the inaugural Poet-in-Residence for the Montclair Art Museum and serves as Poet-in-Residence for Bloomfield High School's What's Your Story program. Vargas holds an MFA from Drew University and allocates her time with her family in South Orange, New Jersey, and New York City. 

David Rosario is a freelance graphic designer and audio-visual storyteller. Along with IT training, he holds an AAS degree in Digital Design and Animation from the Eugenio María de Hostos Community College - CUNY. His experience includes design work with a non-profit organization that provides career training to veterans. He has worked with clients on funeral and memorial projects, offering services from graphic design and photo restoration to video editing and obituary writing. A Harlem native with Dominican and Puerto Rican roots, he also served as a web designer for a course centered on the Hurston/Wright Foundation archives, incorporating archival storytelling projects by students in the MFA Program at The City College - CUNY as part of Archives as Muse: A Harlem Storytelling Project. Currently, Rosario is a podcast producer and web designer for HTI Open Plaza, an online platform within the Hispanic Theological Initiative that amplifies the voices of diverse thinkers, activists, artists, and clergy in the public square.