EJ Levy's story collection, Love, in Theory, won a Flannery O'Connor Award & Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writers Award. Her anthology, Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, won a Lambda. Her essays are reprinted in Best American Essays and have won Pushcarts.

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of two award-winning memoirs, Descanso For My Father: Fragments of a Life and Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams. His essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. He teaches at Colorado State University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, The Mad Feast, Preparing the Ghost, Pot Farm, and Barolo, and the poetry books, The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop. He teaches at Northern Michigan University.

Eula Biss is the author of On Immunity: An Inoculation, Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, and The Balloonists.