Camille Roy is a writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Her fiction collection Honey Mine was published by Nightboat in 2021. Previous works include Sherwood Forest, a book of poetry and prose from Futurepoem, and Cheap Speech, a play from Leroy Chapbooks, as well as ​Swarm (two novellas, from Black Star Series). She co-edited ​Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative​, a book of essays by writers on their own experimental prose practices published by Coach House Books. Earlier books include ​The Rosy Medallions from Kelsey St. Press and Cold Heaven​ from Leslie Scalapino’s O Books. Recent work has appeared in Baest #9 (https://www.baestjournal.com/issue-9-list) and The Swan's Rag (Issue 5, Dirty Swan Projects). More information can be found at https://www.camilleroy.me/.

Claudia La Rocco is the author, most recently, of the novella Drive By (Smooth Friend) and the chapbook-length essay Certain Things (Afternoon Editions). With musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, she is animals & giraffes, an improvisation collective that has released three albums and performs with collaborators from various disciplines. Her multi-genre novel petit cadeau was published in live, digital, and print editions by The Chocolate Factory. Her lectures and live works have been presented by The Walker Art Center, Dancehouse Australia, The Whitney Museum of American Art, et al. She edited I Don’t Poem: An Anthology of Painters (Off the Park Press) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the catalogue for Danspace Projectʼs PLATFORM 2015, which she curated. Prior to founding The Back Room, La Rocco was a critic for The New York Times and editorial director of Open Space. Her second selected writings is forthcoming from Soberscove Press.

ZH Leonard is an interdisciplinary artist living in San Francisco. Their texts, performances, and installations incorporate vocabularies of printmaking, fiber, cinema, and sound. They have exhibited visual work at The Roxie, Wolfman Books, and Artists’ Television Access.

Anne Walsh is a maker of performance, video, sound, and text works. Walsh’s book Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh (2019, no place press/MIT Press) epitomizes the aggressively indexical and personal re-mediations of the works and lives of other artists and her own family. Other recent adaptations include Walsh’s live performances with poet Jocelyn Saidenberg of Camille Roy’s play Sometimes Dead is Better, and her “draft audio-book” version of Claudia LaRocco’s novel And What’s More (with artist Leena Joshi). Walsh is Professor of Art Practice at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland, CA. Walsh’s video ‘Monster Lip Sync’ opens at BAMPFA’s New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century on August 28, 2021.