Toni Jensen is the author of the story collection From the Hilltop. Her stories have been published in journals and anthologies, including Best of the West and New Stories from the South. She teaches creative writing at Penn State University.

Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of Leaving Tulsa. She studied poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She is member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.

Natanya Ann Pulley is the author of stories and essays published in McSweeney’s, Western Humanities Review, and the Los Angeles Review. Her work won the Utah Annual Writers' Contest Best Prose Writer Award, and she is an assistant professor at the University of South Dakota.

Erika T. Wurth is the author of the forthcoming novel Crazyhorse's Girlfriend and the collection of poetry Indian Trains. A guest writer at IAIA, her work has appeared in numerous journals, and she teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University. She is Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee.