N. K. Jemisin is a science-fiction and fantasy writer and a psychologist based in New York. Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including cultural conflict and oppression. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award and four Hugo Awards, three of which were for each of the books in her Broken Earth series-making her the only author to have won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years and the first author to have won for all three books in a trilogy. In 2020, Jemisin was the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, and in 2021, she was named one of TIME magazine's "100 most influential people." Her novels have sold more than one million copies worldwide. Kinitra D. Brooks is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the department of English at Michigan State. She specializes in the study of Black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. She currently has three books in print: Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror, Sycorax's Daughters, and The Lemonade Reader. She is also the coeditor of the New Suns book series. She lives in East Lansing, Michigan. Ashley A. Woods is an artist from Chicago. She got her start through self-publishing her action-fantasy comic series Millennia War, which led her to a career in comics and TV, including Niobe, Tomb Raider, and Wonder Woman , HBO's Lovecraft Country, and Jupiter Invincible with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Yusef Komunyakaa, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2021. Her work has received international recognition, including in Kyoto, Japan, where she presented in a gallery showcase titled Out of Sequence. Shomari Harrington graduated with a bachelor's degree in film majoring in animation from Columbia College Chicago. His artwork has also appeared at the exhibition Milestones: African Americans in Comics, Pop Culture and Beyond, hosted at the Geppi Museum of Entertainment in Baltimore, Maryland.