Penny Guisinger is the author of Postcards from Here and the founding director of Iota: Short Prose Conference. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Rumpus, and others. Pushcart nominated and a Best American Essays notable, Guisinger is an assistant editor at Brevity.

Amanda Johnston is the author of Another Way to Say Enter. She is an Affrilachian poet and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is a cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out, founder of Torch Literary Arts, and faculty with the Stonecoast MFA program.

JP Howard's debut collection Say/Mirror was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. JP was awarded the 2016 Judith Markowitz Emerging Writers Award from Lambda Literary Foundation. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Lambda, and VONA/Voices. JP curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon.

Janna Marlies Maron holds an MA in creative writing from CSU, Sacramento. She is an independent author, editor, and educator. She is the founding editor and publisher of Under the Gum Tree, a quarterly digital literary arts magazine exclusively publishing creative nonfiction and visual art.