Jennifer Acker is founder and Editor in Chief of The Common. Her debut novel The Limits of the World will be published in 2019, along with a nonfiction title. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and she teaches and directs the Literary Publishing Internship at Amherst College.

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.

Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and a 2012 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Granta, VQR, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Guernica, The Literarian, Narrative, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

Patrick Ryan is the author of The Dream Life of Astronauts and Send Me. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Tin House, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. A former editor at Granta, Patrick is the editor of One Story.