Ye Odelia Lu is a lecturer of literature and creative writing at DKU. Her work has appeared in The Margins, Epiphany Magazine, Samovar, and is forthcoming in Canto Aiiieeeee! Cantonese American Reverberations in Literature, Theater, Martial Arts, and Popular Culture. Currently, she is translating a queer sci-fi novel that explores human-machine relationships, autonomy, and heteronormativity.
Sydney Brown is a senior at Duke Kunshan University majoring in Global Cultural Studies, World Literature. She is interested in working with archives and museums and in learning more about African American literature, Victorian literature, Medieval literature, Surrealism, and poetry more generally. She edits the NC-based zine First In.
Yuruo Zhang is an undergraduate student at Duke Kunshan University majoring in Global Cultural Studies with a track in World Literature. While deeply fascinated by words, images, and videos, Yuruo is trying hard to learn more about gender studies, queer theories, film studies, and East Asian studies.
Stephanie Anderson is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at DKU. Her books of poetry include Bearings and If You Love Error So Love Zero; she edited Women in Independent Publishing and co-edited All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Clark Coolidge & Bernadette Mayer. Her scholarly essays and creative work have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Annulet, Post45, Textual Practice, and elsewhere.
Zhiyuan Mark Ma is a senior student at Duke Kunshan University majoring in Global Cultural Studies, Creative Writing and Translation. He writes poetry in English and Chinese. He is also a translator with a focus on poetry. His poems and translations are forthcoming in ANMLY and elsewhere.