Kelcey Parker Ervick is the author of The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova, a hybrid work of biography, memoir, and visual art. Her two previous books of fiction are Liliane's Balcony and For Sale By Owner. She teaches at Indiana University South Bend and leads a study abroad program to Prague/Berlin.

Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist. She runs the Ruth Stone Foundation in Goshen, Vermont, and her new book, The Mobius Strip Club of Grief, is forthcoming.

Nick Francis Potter is the author of New Animals, a hybrid collection of prose and comics. He teaches classes in writing, cartooning, and digital media at the University of Missouri, and currently serves as the comics editor at Drunken Boat.

Tom Hart is the author/artist of The New York Times #1 bestselling graphic memoir, Rosalie Lightning, and the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, an organization and school for comics and graphic novels in Gainesville, Florida which also offers extensive online courses.

Lauren Haldeman is the author of the poetry collections Instead of Dying, Calenday, and the chapbook The Eccentricity of Zero. A comic book artist and poet, she has been a recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.