Ikram Basra (poet, playwright, and journalist; Pakistan) currently based in Iowa City, where he works as a Literary Specialist at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa. His latest book of Urdu ghazals and poems was published in February 2025 by Sanjh Publishers in Lahore. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop (2021), he spent three years teaching playwriting and screenwriting as adjunct professor at the university. His acclaimed play The Job was showcased at the Global Empathy Conference in Adelaide, Australia, and is now part of the playwriting syllabus at both O.M. Beketov National University in Ukraine and The University of Iowa. Before settling in the U.S., Ikram worked in both print and electronic media across Pakistan and America, earning national recognition with a first‑place award from the Association for Alternative Newsmedia in Washington, D.C. (2021).

Florencia del Campo (fiction writer; Argentina/Spain) is the author of four novels: the first one is La huésped (2016), for which del Campo was a finalist for the 2014 Premio Equis de Novela. In 2017, she published Madre mía. Her third novel, La versión extranjera (2019), won the El Premio Internacional de Novela Ciudad de Barbastro. Her most recent novel is Que tenga una casa (2024). She has also published several poetry books and children’s titles in Spain. Her participation is courtesy of the Paul and Hualing Nieh Engle Fund.

Audrey Tawdry is a current student of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.