Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up. She is a Contributing Editor of NOON and an Editor at Large for McSweeney's. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.

Lucy Corin’s third book of fiction, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses was published by McSweeney’s Books. She was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize, an NEA, and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Davis.

Patty Yumi Cottrell is the author of the novel Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. Her work has appeared in Vice, BuzzFeed, BOMB, The White Review, and other places. She is a winner of a 2018 Whiting Award in fiction and a Barnes and Noble Discover Prize.

C Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These Hills is Gold, is forthcoming. Her speculative and realist fiction appears in Fairy Tale Review, Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Tin House, Aspen Words, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of five books, including Wait Till You See Me Dance. Her work appears in Harper's, the Paris Review, Tin House, Vice, and Granta. She has received four Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Capital Grant, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.