Laura Leigh Morris' first book, Jaws of Life, was released by West Virginia University Press in March 2018. She teaches creative writing at Furman University and was previously a National Endowment for the Arts/Bureau of Prisons Artist-in-Residence at Bryan Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.

Florence Davies is a young adult writer and administrator for the Texas A&M University Writing Center, serving as head coordinator for the Black Box Writers Residency program for four years. She received an MFA in Writing & Literature from Stony Brook University in 2013 and her BA in English from TAMU.

Jonathan Corcoran is the author of the story collection The Rope Swing, which was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction and long-listed for the Story Prize. He teaches writing at Rutgers University–Newark and in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Amber Foster is a nontenure-track Assistant Professor of Writing for the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. In the summer, she teaches the USC Summer Programs Creative Writing Workshop—an intensive, four-week creative writing course for college-bound high school students.