Christine Barnes
Christine E. Barnes is a Jamaican-Canadian revolutionary writer and poet. Her writings display an array of genres from fiction, non-fiction, extensive prose and short stories, to intriguing, humorous, love inspired and politically/socially conscious poetry. She is a recent graduate of York University, with a B.A. in English and a self-made minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Many of her works can be found on LiterateNubian.org, The Open Canvas, Honeychile, Brownskin Magazine and York University’s premier newspaper, The Excalibur. She is originally from Toronto but currently resides in Osaka, Japan where she teaches English as a Second Language for AEON Corp.

momo willy
Monique Williams is a writer based in Florida . She is the author of "Neurotica: An honest examination into urban sexual relations." The book offers twenty-four stories to tantalize and titillate, humor and horrify, sadden and stupefy. Distancing herself from the vulgar musings of the likes of Zane, Monique Williams creates believable characters and situations with dialogue immersed in the vernacular of each storyteller. She chooses to use this book as a vehicle to enter the hearts and minds of the urban culture and positively influence them. Using real talk, her next projects include a self-help book for black ladies, and more erotic stories for everyone. You can learn more about her at www.momowilly.com

jacci leslie
Jacci Leslie is a journalist from Brooklyn, New York. Her writings and reviews have been featured in Medgar Evers College Magazine and Black Issues Book Review Magazine.

Cynthia Paulino
Cynthia Paulino is a poet and a short story writer. Her work has appeared in several magazines and newspapers throughout the United States and Latin America, most recently in Sos Voz, Poetry in Performance, and Bear River Review. She is presently studying literature in both the English and Spanish language at The City College of New York under a full scholarship. Additionally, she studied Argentinean and Latin American literature in an Argentinean Study Abroad Program at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. She currently resides in New York City, where she continues to write, study, and dream her favorite Caribbean summers.