Amira Pierce received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and teaches freshman composition at New York University. Her nonfiction and fiction have appeared in publications including Colorado Review and Cream City Review.

R. Lemberg's debut poetry collection Marginalia to Stone Bird was a Crawford Award finalist in 2017. They also edited two LGBTQIA+ and feminist speculative poetry anthologies. As R. Perelmutter, they are an associate professor of Slavic and Jewish Studies at the University of Kansas.

Melissa R. Sipin is cofounder of TAYO Literary Magazine and partnered with the Feminist Press to establish the Louise Meriwether Prize. She has published in Prairie Schooner, Slice Magazine, and Guernica, and is hard at work on a novel about her grandmother's capture in WWII. msipin.com

Brooke C. Obie, JD, MFA, is the author of the speculative novel Book of Addis: Cradled Embers, which won the 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for First Fiction and the 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Self-Published Fiction.

Richard Scott Larson earned his MFA at New York University, where he currently works for the Expository Writing Program. His fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Joyland, Hobart, and elsewhere. He's currently writing a novel and a memoir.