Lia Woodall's award-winning essays appear in under the gum tree, Literal Latté, Sonora Review, and South Loop Review. She is an inaugural member of The Book Project at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and experimental reading groups, Salon Denver and Salon Houston. She writes about twin loss and suicide.

Richard Froude MD PhD is the author of three cross-genre/nonfiction books: Fabric, The Passenger, and Your Love Alone Is Not Enough. He is a psychiatry resident at the University of Colorado and core faculty in nonfiction/hybrid forms at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.

Tyehimba Jess's last book, Olio, won the Pulitzer Prize, Anisfield-Wolf, and Society of Midland Authors Poetry Award and recognition from the BCALA. His first book, Leadbelly, won the National Poetry Series. A NEA, Whiting and Lannan Foundation Award winner, he teaches at College of Staten Island.

Jessica Wilbanks is the author of the memoir When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and Its Loss. She has received national awards for her nonfiction, including a Pushcart Prize, the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and Ninth Letter’s inaugural creative nonfiction award.

Dickson Lam is the author of Paper Sons: A Memoir. He holds MFA degrees in creative writing from the University of Houston and Rutgers-Newark. Lam is an Assistant Professor of English at Contra Costa College.