TaraShea Nesbit is the author of The Wives of Los Alamos, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize. Her essays are featured in Granta, The Guardian, and Salon. Her second novel, Beheld, is forthcoming in 2020. She teaches at Miami University.

Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir Bruja. Publishing credits include The New York Times, Joyland, StoryQuarterly, and a year-long series in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles.

Amy Jo Burns is the author of Cinderland, and her writing has appeared in Salon, Good Housekeeping, The Rumpus, Tin House Online, and Electric Literature. Her novel Shiner is forthcoming.

Angela Morales, a graduate of the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program, is the author of The Girls in My Town, a collection of personal essays, winner of the River Teeth Book Prize and the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, 2016.

Laurie Jean Cannady