Mardi Link is the author of Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm. She received the Michigan Notable Book Award in 2010 and was nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize.

Anne-Marie Oomen is author of Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields, both Michigan Notable Books, An American Map: Essays; and Uncoded Woman. She is instructor of creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy and The Solstice MFA at Pine Manor College (MA).

Donna Kaz is a memoirist, poet, playwright, and lyricist. She is a 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee and an MFA candidate at Queens University Charlotte.

Jenny Robertson's poems and short stories have appeared in Dunes Review, Greatest Lakes Review, Dislocate, Cheek Teeth, and in Bite: An Anthology of Flash Fiction. She was the 2012 recipient of the William J. Shaw Memorial Prize in Poetry.