Justin Tyler Clark is the author of a new history of Boston, City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture. He is an assistant professor in the History and University Scholars programs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Robin Hemley is the founder of the NonfictioNow Conference and the author thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and residencies at the Bellagio Arts Center, The MacDowell Colony, and many others.

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of Around the Bloc, Mexican Enough, and All the Agents and Saints. Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction at UNC-Chapel Hill, she lectures globally, including as a Moth Storyteller, and won a Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting at the US border.

Colin Dickey has written three books of nonfiction, most recently Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. He is currently working on a book about the history of conspiracy theories. He teaches in the MFA program at National University.

Ada Calhoun is the author of St. Marks Is Dead and the memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give. She has taught writing at Gotham Writers Workshop, the Miami Writers Institute, and the Summer Writers' Conference at Rutgers.