Krista Bremer is the author of A Tender Struggle: Story of a Marriage. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O: the Oprah Magazine, The Sunday Times (London), and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured on NPR and PBS. She is the associate publisher of The Sun magazine.

Sy Safransky is editor and publisher of The Sun.

Jaquira Diaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Kenyon Review, and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work appears in the Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Guardian, and The Best American Essays 2016.

Heather Sellers is the author of The Practice of Creative Writing, a textbook for the multigenre course, and You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, a memoir, and two collections of poetry, and a book of fiction, Georgia Under Water. She teaches in the MFA program at USF.

Crystal Williams, a poet and essayist, is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, Detroit as Barn. She has received numerous fellowships, awards, and honors. crystalannwilliams.com.