Ari Larissa Heinrich is Professor of Chinese Media and Culture at the Australian National University. Heinrich has written on topics ranging from the history of medical photography and painting to the exhibition of cadavers in internationally circulating anatomical displays. They are also known for their translations of key works of queer literature from Taiwan such as Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books, 2014) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (Columbia University Press, 2021). “Ejecta” is an entry in their book-length experimental glossary project, which has the working title Decolonial Melanin. 

M. Neelika Jayawardane is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York- Oswego and a Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg. Her writing and research is centered on South Africa and her scholarly publications focus on the nexus between written texts, visual art, photography, and the transnational/transhistorical implications of colonialism, ongoing forms of discrimination, displacement, and migration on individuals and communities. She is a recipient of a 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for a book project on Afrapix, a South African photographers’ agency that operated during the last decade of apartheid. Jayawardane was born in Sri Lanka, raised in Zambia, and completed her university education in the United States. 

William E. Jones is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. He has made two feature-length experimental films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997); the documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004); and videos including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998), Psychic Driving (2014), and Fall into Ruin (2017). His work has been the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern, London (2005); Anthology Film Archives, New York (2010); and the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna (2011). He is the author of the nonfiction books Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010), Halsted Plays Himself (2011), Imitation of Christ (2013), and True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell (2016), as well as the novels I’m Open to Anything (2019) and I Should Have Known Better (2021). He lives in Los Angeles. 

Tan Lin is the author of twelve books. “The Fern Rose Bibliography” is excerpted from his forthcoming novel Our Feelings Were Made by Hand. He lives with his family in New York City, where he tends roses and mosses on a terrace. 

Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College–SUNY, where they chair the Global Black Studies and Gender Studies programs. Their work stages encounters between Black study, queer theory, media, technology, and art.