Erin Stalcup is the author of the collection And Yet It Moves and the ecofabulist novel Every Living Species. She has taught in New York City, North Carolina, Texas, and Arizona, and is now faculty in the MFA Program in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and Editor of Hunger Mountain. Stalcup cofounded and coedits Waxwing.

Christian Moody’s fiction has been anthologized in Best New American Voices and Best American Fantasy, and he has published stories in Esquire, The Cincinnati Review, The Collagist, Sonora Review, and other literary journals. He's an assistant professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

E. Lily Yu received the 2017 Artist Trust/Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award. Her short stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards and have appeared in Hazlitt, McSweeney's, Boston Review, and Clarkesworld, as well as multiple best-of-the-year anthologies.

Matt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods (a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award), as well as the story collection A Tree of a Person or a Wall. He teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Arizona State University.

Tessa Mellas's collection Lungs Full of Noise won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. An Assistant Professor at the University of Maine at Machias, she runs the Maine Writers Series. Her PhD is from the University of Cincinnati. She is working on an eco-fabulist novella in flash and a book of essays.