ROAM '96 is a contemporary R&B and Hip-Hop artist who was born in Atlanta, GA in 1996 and grew up in its downtown and surrounding metro areas. ROAM's music is often described as entrancing, reflective, and introspective, containing lyrics that delve into his personal experiences and reveal his commitment to authenticity. His works tend to feel like meditations on themes of ambition, resilience, family, love, loyalty, and spiritual growth. Through his efforts as a musician, a writer, and a storyteller, he has proven dedicated not only to his own creative independence, but also to pushing the boundaries for other artists like him.

August Claybourne is an author of cross-genre fiction, as well as metrical and free verse poetry. His journey with writing fiction and learning the craft of storytelling began in the Fall of 2023, but he's been writing poetry since his time in middle school. August has always appreciated fiction that cannot be pigeonholed into one genre or theme and, in his own work, aims to produce similar results, writing with an intention to cut across multiple genres, from the realistic to the speculative, from the historical to the visionary. Altogether, both his stories and poems explore themes such as truth and wonder, purpose and perception, transformation, redemption, healing, spiritual stewardship, and the unity of humanity.

Writing under his pseudonym, AJE Jr. is, in literal terms, a student of the so-called human condition, currently in the process of earning a bachelor's degree in The Study of the Human Condition. These studies inform his philosophical nonfiction, which aims to explore the universal and foundational experiences which have shaped, and which continue to shape, human life and understanding. Writing across various subjects, from ethics and metaphysics to evolution and politics, AJE Jr.'s work is intended to clarify complex ideas, to question the prevailing assumptions of the day, and to invite similarly engaged thinkers into a deeper, more honest and constructive relationship with themselves, with each other, and with the world and universe in general.