Barney T. Haney teaches English at the University of Indianapolis where he is cochair of the Kellogg Writers Series. His fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Mid-American Review, Marathon Literary Review, and Barely South Review, among others.

Shonda Buchanan is the former Interim Chair/Assistant Professor for the Dept. of English & Foreign Languages at Hampton University. 

Jameelah Lang is the Graduate Writing Specialist at UMKC. Her fiction appears in the Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades and Witness. She has received awards from Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers Conference, VCCA, & Hub City Writers Project. She's a board member for Radius of Arab American Writers.

Christopher Coake is the author of the novel You Came Back and the story collection We're in Trouble, for which he won the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. In 2006 he was named a Best Young American Novelist by Granta. He teaches and directs the MFA program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Ania Spyra is an Associate Professor of English at Butler University and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She teaches Transnational and Postcolonial Literature, Translation, and Creative Writing. She directs the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series at Butler.