Ron Tanner is the author of three books, most recently, From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story. His awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, and many others.

Jessica Anya Blau is the author of the novels The Wonder Bread Summer, Drinking Closer to Home, and The Summer of Naked Swim Parties.

Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation), is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Indian Cartography, The Zen of La Llorona, and co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literatures. She is Full professor of English at Washington and Lee University.

William Trowbridge, the current Poet Laureate of Missouri. He has published five full collections of poetry and three chapbooks. His sixth collection, a new and selected, is forthcoming. He teaches in the University of Nebraska Low-residency MFA in Writing Program.

Benjamin Busch is the author of a memoir, Dust to Dust, which was released in March of 2012.