Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic memoir Imagine Wanting Only This. She is the art director and New York editor of the Believer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Oxford American, Guernica, and other places.

Sara Ortiz is the program manager of The Believer magazine and Black Mountain Institute. She has curated events and marketed books for literary institutions, such as McNally Jackson Books, Scholastic Inc., Penguin Random House, and the Texas Library Association.

Molly Rose Quinn is the cofounder and Executive Director of the Center for Southern Literary Arts in Memphis, Tennessee. Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Lenny Letter, espnW, and other places.

Steph Opitz is the founding director of Wordplay at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.