Margaret Emma Brandl is a PhD candidate in fiction at Texas Tech University, where she is an associate editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. Her writing has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Pithead Chapel, Gulf Coast, and Hobart, among others.

Katharine Beutner is a writer, teacher, and organizer. She teaches at the College of Wooster; previously, she taught at UH Mānoa. Her novel Alcestis won the 2011 Edmund White Award, and her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Toast, Public Books, TriQuarterly, and other publications.

Erika Staiger is a third-year MFA candidate at the University of South Florida. At USF, she taught and completed coursework in freshman composition, creative writing, and professional writing. She also interned for Spencerhill Associates and published writing on the pedagogical value of fanfiction.

Brooke Wonders’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Cutbank, and elsewhere. She is nonfiction editor at North American Review, a founding editor of Grimoire Magazine, and an assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa.

Mark Lewandowski is the author of the story collection, Halibut Rodeo. His stories, essays and scripts have also appeared in dozens of literary journals and have been listed as "notable" in numerous Best American anthologies. Currently, he is a professor of English at Indiana State University.