Himanee Gupta is a writer, farmer, and an associate professor of Historical Studies at SUNY Empire State College. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include South Asian American religions, Hip Hop studies, diasporas, food justice, regenerative agriculture, and decoloniality. Her primary method of inquiry is autoethnography. In her first book, Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America, Himanee shows how Christianity and white supremacy intersect to create a “typical America” that silently suppresses the presence of those who are not white, Christian or of European ancestry. Her current writing explores how farming and spirituality might come together to form relationships with land in an effort to help unravel settler colonialism and slow climate change. Her work on this topic has appeared in The Weave News, Zocalo Public Square, Political Theology Network, and in newspapers and magazines in Saratoga County, NY, where she resides. Himanee is Empire State College’s 2022-23 Susan H. Turben Chair in Mentoring.

HJ Davies is absolutely thrilled to embark on this journey at Craig multi-hyphenate creative born, raised, and residing in New York City. They have been published in Promethean, OyeDrum Magazine, and Quail Bell Magazine, and have completed residences at AIR Studio Paducah and the EncaustiCastle. In 2020, they received an MFA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York. They currently serve as the literary manager for NYC independent theater company KEF Productions Inc. In addition to their literary career, they create music with alt-folk group The Wife and Kids, as well as under a solo moniker, Haushinka. When not creating, they enjoy traveling, karaoke, and playing Dungeons and Dragons.