Born in Arizona and raised in Portland, Oregon, Nellie Papsdorf is a writer, collagist, editor, sibling, stranger, and friend. Her work is inspired by an abiding interest in scripts and coping mechanisms, an undergraduate degree in intellectual and cultural history, and a penchant for seesawing between gusto and despair.

Eric Atie is a Nigerian photographer and writer. He is a first-year MFA student at the University of Arizona, and one of the editors for Sonora Review. Atie’s work has appeared in Maroko, Lolwe, Brittle Paper, African Writer Magazine, and elsewhere.

Bea Troxel is an essayist and musician from Nashville, TN. She writes about beavers and wave pools, but really she's just writing about longing and intimacy and connection. Her most recent record, Gettin' Where, came out in 2021, and you can catch her playing an occasional show around Tucson or spending hours on end at the Free Table.

Rose Paulson is a writer from Columbus, Ohio. She’s currently a second-year MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona, where she received the Minnie Torrance Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize. A graduate of Kenyon College, she previously taught English as a Fulbright grantee in Riga, Latvia, and worked for W. W. Norton and the Kenyon Review. She’s also a puppeteer.

The Borderlands Earth Care Youth (BECY) inspires and trains the next generation of land stewards by hiring culturally diverse youth living on the US/Mexico borderlands to restore the trans-national watersheds they call home. Youth work with rock, wood, seeds, hands, and hearts to return flowing waters and riverside ecosystems to the arid borderlands.

Salvavision helps refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers navigate a global migration crisis by providing aid & resources, while building stronger communities in Arizona and abroad. We also have partnerships to support returnees who have been deported to their home countries.

The Kino Border Initiative (KBI) is a binational organization that works in the area of migration and is located in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The KBI’s vision is to help make humane, just, workable migration between the U.S. and Mexico a reality. Its mission is to promote US/Mexico border and immigration policies that affirm the dignity of the human person and a spirit of bi-national solidarity.