Michael Croley is a 2016 NEA Fellow in Literature. His debut collection of stories, Any Other Place, will appear in 2019. His work has appeared in Lit Hub, The Paris Review Daily, Kenyon Review Online, Virginia Quarterly Review, Narrative, Blackbird, Bloomberg, and elsewhere. He teaches at Denison University.

John Freeman is author of How to Read a Novelist and editor of Freeman's, a literary biannual. His other books include The Tyranny of E-mail and Tales of Two Cities. Former editor of Granta, he teaches at the New School. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

Erika Sanchez is a poet, novelist, and essayist. She is the author of Lessons on Expulsion and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. She is a 2017–2019 Princeton Arts Fellow.

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He translated Pablo Neruda's The Heights of Macchu Picchu and with Mari L’Esperance co-edited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. He teaches at Drew University and in the low-residency MFA program at VCFA.

Bonnie Nadzam is an American fiction writer and essayist.