Dohra Ahmad is professor of English at St. John's University, New York City. She is the author of Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America and co-author of Vernaculars in the Classroom: Paradoxes, Pedagogy, Possibilities.
Edwidge Danitcat is the author of several books, including The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker and Create Dangerously. She is a National Book Award finalist.