Sarah Leavitt teaches comics classes in the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing Program. Her classes include large undergrad lectures, small MFA workshops and a few things in between. She is the author of the comics memoir Tangles and the graphic novel Agnes, Murderess (forthcoming).

Jennifer Murvin's writing and graphic narrative have been published in The Sun, American Short Fiction, The Florida Review, Bellingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Catamaran, and many other publications . She is a faculty member at Missouri State University and holds an MFA from Pacific University.

Christian Moody’s fiction has been anthologized in Best New American Voices and Best American Fantasy, and he has published stories in Esquire magazine, The Cincinnati Review, The Collagist, Sonora Review, and other literary journals. He's an assistant professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Cole Closser is the author of two graphic novels, Little Tommy Lost (nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award and featured in Best American Comics 2015) and Black Rat (featured in The Globe and Mail, The New Yorker, and as a Notable Selection in Best American Comics 2017).

Sandy Longhorn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Alchemy of My Mortal Form. She teaches in the Arkansas Writers MFA Program at the University of Central Arkansas where she directs The C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference.