Kermit Frazier has had many plays produced in New York and around the country. He has also written for several television series and he has published fiction and creative nonfiction in several magazines and journals. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Adelphi University.

Catherine Chung is the author of the novel Forgotten Country and an assistant professor at Adelphi University. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Granta.com, and The Rumpus, and she is fiction editor at Guernica.

Jessica Hagedorn is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She is the director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Long Island University Brooklyn.

Cassandra Medley, playwright and professor at Sarah Lawrence College, won the 2006 Audelco August Wilson Award for Playwriting. Her most recently produced plays include: American Slavery Project, Cell, and Daughter.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the author of two collections, Last Seen, a Felix Pollak Poetry Prize selection, and Gravity, U.S.A., recipient of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award; and the novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. She teaches at Adelphi University.