Cathy Thomas is a University of California President's Dissertation Year Fellow examining carnivalesque in Caribbean literature and comics. On her 10th birthday, she received a microscope and a journal. She wonders if she’s a scientist writing poems or a poet doing science—likely neither or both happens in her fiction.

Etkin Camoglu is a Turkish American writer whose short fiction has appeared in Sonora Review, Meridian, and Blackbird among others. A PhD fiction candidate at Florida State University, Etkin is working on a novel while living in Dublin, Ireland.

Kelly Dulaney is the author of the hybrid novella Ash. Her writing appears in various journals. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Colorado in Boulder and is the editor of The Cupboard Pamphlet.

Whitney DeVos is a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, with a creative/critical concentration, where she studies experimental poetics of the Americas. She is the author of a chapbook, On Being Blonde, and has published creative work in Whiskey Island, lo-ball, Spork online, and elsewhere.

Christopher David Rosales is the author of the novel Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper, which won the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. An assistant professor at the Jack Kerouac School, he received his doctorate from the University of Denver.