Jill Christman is the author of two memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (AWP Award Series in CNF winner) and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She teaches creative nonfiction writing at Ball State University.

Joy Castro is the author of the literary thrillers Hell or High Water and Nearer Home, the memoirs The Truth Book and Island of Bones, and the short fiction collection How Winter Began. Editor of the collection Family Trouble, she teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the nonfiction books Buddha’s Dog & other Meditations, Southside Buddhist, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy. He teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida and is the editor of Sweet: A Literary Confection.

Danielle Trussoni is a New York Times- and internationally bestselling novelist and an award-winning memoirist. She has published four books—two novels and two memoirs—and hosts the Writerly Podcast with Walter Kirn. Her work has been translated into thirty-two languages.