Katherine Arnoldi (Fulbright, Paraguay 2008-9), created the graphic novel The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom, All Things Are Labor: Stories. Her awards include two New York Foundation of the Arts Awards, along with the DeJur, Henfield, Juniper, and Newhouse awards.

Laurel Flores Fantauzzo is the author of The First Impulse. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, and Esquire Philippines. A 2016 finalist for the PEN/Fusion Award, she is a lecturer in the Writers' Centre at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

Erika Martínez received a Fulbright Fellowship to edit Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women. Her writing appears in various anthologies and literary journals. She currently works at the National Writing Project.

Laura Joyce Davis won the Poets & Writers Exchange Award for fiction and a Fulbright scholarship. Her work has received honorable mention with Glimmer Train, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has recently appeared in the Arroyo Literary Review, Hobart, Runner’s World, and elsewhere.

Jeremiah Chamberlin teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is also the editor in chief of Fiction Writers Review, a contributing editor for Poets & Writers magazine, and a coauthor of Creative Composition. Most recently, he was a 2016–2017 Fulbright Research Scholar in Bulgaria.