Larissa Shmailo's latest book of poetry is Medusa's Country and her latest novel is Patient Women. She is an anthologist of Russian poetry in translation and the original English translator of the avant-garde opera Victory over the Sun. She also is a critical writer on poetry and poetics.

Jonathan Penton edits the journal Unlikely Stories and its print arm, Unlikely Books. He has worked in management and technical roles for publishers, arts organizations, and literary workshops, such as the New Orleans Poetry Festival and Big Bridge. His most recent chapbook of poetry is Backstories.

Thaddeus Rutkowski is author of six books, most recently Border Crossings, a poetry collection. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence, Medgar Evers, and the YMCA. He received a fiction fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and served as a panelist for the NYFA nonfiction fellowship.

Cecilia Tan is the award-winning author of three collections of short stories, three web serials, and many novels, in genres spanning literary erotica, science fiction, and baseball fabulism. She is also the founder of erotic science fiction publisher Circlet Press, which she has directed since 1992.

Erica Jong, celebrated poet, novelist, and essayist with over twenty-five books published in forty-five languages, including international best-sellers, Fear of Flying & Fear of Dying. She’s adapting her favorite novel, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones for an unlimited television series and has a new poetry volume due for release.