Valerie Merians is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

Dennis Johnson is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House and the founder of the book blog MobyLives.

Christopher Boucher is the author of the novel How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive and the managing editor of Post Road magazine. He teaches writing and literature at Boston College.

Jeremy P. Bushnell is the author of the novel The Weirdness and is the fiction editor for Longform.com. He teaches writing at Northeastern University in Boston.

Rachel Cantor is the author of the novel A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World and the forthcoming novel Door Number Two. She has published stories in the Paris Review, One Story, Kenyon Review, and New England Review.