Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of three short story collections: This Life She's Chosen, Swimming With Strangers, and What We Do With the Wreckage, which won the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She teaches high school near Seattle.

Samuel Ligon is the author of two novels and two books of stories. He’s coeditor, with Kate Lebo, of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze. He teaches at Eastern Washington University and is Artistic Director of the Port Townsend Writer's Conference.

Kristen Millares Young is Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House. She is the author of Subduction. Her work appears in the Washington Post, Guardian, The New York Times, Crosscut, Hobart and Moss. She is a cofounder & board chair of InvestigateWest, a nonprofit news studio with major legal impact.

Dawn Pichon Barron, writer and educator, lives and works at the south end of the Salish Sea. Her chapbook is, Escape Girl Blues.

Julia Hands holds and MFA from Western Washington University and now coordinates the Write Our Democracy Write-In series and volunteers for Lit Crawl Seattle. She is the Assistant Program Manager at the Centrum Writers Conference and has been published in 5x5, Evansville Review, and Blink-Ink.