Stephen Embleton was born in South Africa and has been based in Oxford since his 2022 fellowship at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He was awarded a Royal Literary Fund grant in 2024, and edited The James Currey Anthology 2022, featuring short fiction and non-fiction from the African continent and diaspora.

Cheryl S. Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer whose work has appeared in FIYAH magazine and Apex Magazine, among many others. She is part of the Sauútiverse Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and Petlo Literary Arts, an organization that develops creative writing in Botswana.