Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III is the author of the novel, Aklat ng mga Naiwan (Book of the Damned, Balangiga Press, 2018), co-editor and co-translator of Wiji Thukul's Balada ng Bala (The Ballad of a Bullet), and translator of an upcoming Filipino-language edition of Eka Kurniawan's collection of stories to be published by the Ateneo de Naga University Press. He teaches courses on Southeast Asian literature and creative writing at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature in the University of the Philippines Diliman. Tilde Acuña, author of Oroboro at Iba Pang Abiso (Oroboro and other Notices, University of the Philippines Press, 2020), teaches at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature in the University of the Philippines Diliman. The illustrator for Marlon Hacla's Melismas (Oomph Press, 2020), Acuña is a co-editor of Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021) and several other upcoming anthologies. 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).