Composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist Kangwa Mundende writes music that underscores the human experience; creating sonic frequencies that bypass internal cacophony and transform into a space for healing. In April of 2021, Kangwa’s piece Exodus was premiered by Dr. Brian Lamb and the UCO Wind Symphony. Kangwa is currently composing and developing The Burning, an opera about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. He attended the University of Central Oklahoma where he studied music composition with Dr. Samuel Magrill and classical and jazz bass with Dr. Michael T. Geib.

Nathan Steinman is a writer from Oklahoma. He is a child of the Nineteen-eighties and a product of being moved around the United States as a child by the military. In the early Nineties, the family returned and settled in Oklahoma. At seventeen, he went to his first poetry reading and has been writing poetry ever since, both a previous member of the 2005 Oklahoma City Slam Team and former SlamMaster for the Home for Wayward Poets—now Red Dirt Poetry. He continues to study poetry even after going to school to become a teacher. He is currently a member of the band Starscheme and teaches music full time.