Destiny Hemphill is a Black daughter of the U.S. South with nearly a decade of experience in co-creating spaces devoted to poetry, communion, and transformation. She has received fellowships from Tin House, Callaloo, and Naropa University, and is a co-poetry editor of Southern Cultures.

Lisbeth White has worked in private practices as an arts therapist for 13 years, supporting individual and community mental health. She has facilitated community-based workshops for healing justice work, including Black artist-activist residencies at Blue Mountain Center, and has taught and coordinated healing spaces for Black Love Convergence, BIPOC yoga teacher trainings, and Parenting for Liberation. She is the author of the poetry collection American Sycamore.