Jess Row is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine and the story collections The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. His first book of essays, White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, is forthcoming. He teaches at the College of New Jersey.

Samiya Bashir’s three books of poetry, Field Theories, Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. She teaches at Reed College.

Jen Fitzgerald is a poet/writer/photographer. Author of The Art of Work and a member of N.Y. Writers Workshop. She teaches writing workshops online and around NYC. Work featured on and in: PBS Newshour, Tin House, Boston Review, New England Review, and Salon, among others.

Mitchell S. Jackson’s debut novel The Residue Years won a Whiting Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. It was also a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award, The Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel prize, and the Hurston Wright Legacy award.