Liza Monroy is the author of The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep my Best Friend in America and What it Taught us About Love, and the novel Mexican High. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Newsweek, Self, and Poets & Writers, and has been widely anthologized.

John Christian Sevcik is an emerging writer living in Seattle. He studied at Emerson and Goddard; organizes Lit.mustest, a reading series at the Hugo House; and has just completed his first book.

Brian Gresko is a writer based in Brooklyn. He is the editor of When I First Held You: Great Writers Reflect on Fatherhood, forthcoming in spring 2014.

Kassi Underwood won the Pro-Voice Storyteller Award for her essays on abortion. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, the Atlantic online, and The Rumpus. She teaches writing at Columbia and hosts The Freerange Nonfiction Reading Series in New York City.