Ewan Atkinson was born in Barbados in 1975. He received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and an MA in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.  He has exhibited in regional and international exhibitions including the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, "Wrestling with the image: Caribbean Interventions" at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, and "Infinite Islands" at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.  Atkinson is the coordinator of the BFA in studio art at the Barbados Community College where he co-founded the Punch Creative Arena, an initiative for creative action based in the college gallery. An arts educator for over a decade, he is also on the executive board of Fresh Milk, a Caribbean non-profit, artist-led, creative support organization. Atkinson also works as a freelance illustrator and designer.

Ebony G. Patterson was born in Kingston in 1981. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, and earned her MFA in 2006 from the Sam Fox College of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis. She currently serves as an associate professor in painting and mixed media at the School of Visual Arts and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Frieze magazine, the Huffington Post, Art Papers, Art Nexus, Small Axe, and the International Review of African American Art. Her work has been included in notable group exhibitions such as Visual Art and Music in a Post-Hip-Hop Era at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, and Six Degrees of Separate Nations, Patricia and Philip Frost Museum, Miami (2013); Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, and Queens Museum of Art (2012); Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions at Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC (2011); Young Talent V, at the National Gallery of Jamaica (2012); and Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2007). She recently staged her first solo US museum show at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, and her work is currently on view in Gold, at the Bass Museum, Miami.

Andil Gosine (whose work also appears on the cover of this issue) is a writer and artist who is currently an associate professor at York University, Toronto, where he teaches courses in contemporary cultural studies. Coauthor (with Cheryl Teelucksingh) of Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada: An Introduction (2008), his research has been published in several journals, including Sexualities, Topia Journal of Cultural Studies, Social Justice, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Alternatives. He edited the groundbreaking “Sexualities” issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. Gosine is also a contributor to the scholarly anthologies Queer Ecology, Queer Online, Queer Youth Cultures, and Queerly Canadian. He debuted his Wardrobes collection at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology in 2011. Over the three subsequent years, each textile or metal object was adapted to performances staged in Toronto or New York: Cutlass, Rum and Roti (Made in Love), and Ohrni. In 2014, his performance of Our Holy Waters and Mine was held at Queens Museum of Art, and he led the community arts engagement project Coolitude. He is currently completing a series of six short films about his resonances with various New York–based artists (Bathwater premiered at the New York City Mix Festival in November 2013), and recently participated in a staged reading of Lorraine O'Grady's text Olympia's Maid at the Hole Gallery in 2014.

Kareem Mortimer, a filmmaker who has won over thirty film awards, was born in Nassau in 1980. His feature films include the LGBT drama Children of God, which has won eighteen festival awards, and the family comedy Wind Jammers, which had a worldwide release through Filmworks International. He is also an accomplished video artist who has made three experimental films (Back to Nassau, Blow, and Black to White) and four medium-length shorts (Float, Chance, She, and Passage) and has directed three feature documentaries (The Eleutheran Adventure, Chartered Course, and I Am Not a Dummy). His work has been showcased on Showtime, PBS, LOGO, NBC, and Canal 22. He is currently in development of his third feature, Cargo, about human smuggling, which at the script level has already won three awards.

Leasho Johnson was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1984, and as the son of an artist, he was exposed to art at an early age. In 2009, he graduated from Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts with a degree in visual communication. His work is influenced by 1950s pop art, with a mix of various graffiti/graphic art styles through which he seeks to engage the context of his own environment. His work has been exhibited at a number of venues, including the Rock Stone and Boot Heel exhibition in Real Art Ways Gallery, New York, 2009, and at the National Gallery of Jamaica's Young Talent V in 2010.