is a multi-genre writer based in Southern California who is studying poetry, fiction, and critical theory in an MFA/MA dual degree program at Chapman University. They are the art director for MENT Magazine, a digital publication for critical and creative work on Korean popular media.

is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. She works at the intersection of digital media and critical race studies, and her primary research focus is South Korean popular media. Her work on K-pop can be found in JCMS (Journal of Cinema and MediaStudies), Post45 Contemporaries, and in Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader. She is co-editor and co-founder of MENT Magazine.

is a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley, where she studies early modern literature. Her writing has appeared in the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, Evergreen Review, The Journal, and elsewhere.

is Assistant Professor of Korean Media and Director of the Centre for the Study of Korea at the University of Toronto. She is author of the forthcoming book Genre Worlds: Global Forms and Millennial South Korean Cinema and co-editor of two books, Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader and Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea. Her public-facing writing appears in such venues as The LA Review of Books, and she's a regular guest on the CBC's daily culture show Commotion and a frequent commentator in other outlets ranging from NPR to The New York Times to The Washington Post. She once hosted a public conversation between Squid Game star Lee Jung Jae and actor Jung Woo Sung at the Toronto International Film Festival.

is the author of the memoir Do You Know How Lucky You Are? (forthcoming HarperCollins India) and co-editor of Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader (Duke 2024). She is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and has taught ethnic American and postcolonial literature at Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins University and other institutions. She currently teaches classes in creative writing at GrubStreet in Boston and Asian and Ethnic American literature at Tufts University and Emerson College. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, ELLE.com, Al Jazeera English, CNN, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, amongst other publications. She is currently working on a novel about desire, race, and academia, titled Pick Me, and is represented by Lucy Cleland at Frances Gold in Literary Agency and Naomi Barton at A Suitable Agency.

is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines (Duke 2013) and Empire’s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper (Duke 2021), and co-editor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i (Duke 2019) and Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader.

is a persona for the interdisciplinary artist, editor, and scholar, behind creative meditations on fandom, philosophy, arts and culture. These intermedial artworks function as a way to explore our relationship to the things, figures, idols, and pop stars we worship. Their work weaves together sound and visuals from K-pop videos, films, and other visual content which are re-contextualized, re-aestheticized, and illuminated through the intrusion of both original and sourced poetic/philosophic text.

is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her work examines the intersections between literature, popular culture, and empire. Her first book, Alimentary Orientalism, consider show racialized forms of consumption both perpetuated and unraveled British fantasies of theEast. She is the co-founder and co-editor of MENT Magazine.

is the author of Choreographing Asian America (Wesleyan 2010); editor of Contemporary Direction in Asian American Dance (Wisconsin 2016); and co-editor of The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, 3rd Edition (Routledge 2018), Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence (2023), and Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader (Duke 2024).