H.K. Hummel is the author of Lessons in Breathing Underwater, and Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writers Guide and Anthology. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Grant Faulkner is executive director of National Novel Writing Month and the cofounder of 100 Word Story magazine. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times and Poets & Writers. His collection of one hundred 100-word stories is Fissures.

José Angel Araguz is a CantoMundo fellow and author of seven chapbooks as well as the collections Everything We Think We Hear, Small Fires, and Until We Are Level Again. He runs the poetry blog The Friday Influence and teaches English and creative writing at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

Shivani Mehta's first book, a collection of prose poems entitled Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded, is out from Press 53. Her work has appeared in numerous journals.