Ron MacLean is author of the novels Headlong and Blue Winnetka Skies, and the story collection Why the Long Face? He teaches at Grub Street in Boston. www.ronmaclean.net.

Alden Jones is the author of The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Post Road, the Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Best American Travel Writing. She teaches in Boston at Emerson College and Grub Street.

Lisa Borders is the author of two novels: The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land, winner of the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel and a Massachusetts Book Awards honor. A widely published short story writer, she teaches at Boston’s Grub Street.

Kate Racculia is a writer, researcher, and fiction instructor at Grub Street. Her second novel, Bellweather Rhapsody, is forthcoming in 2014, and her first, This Must Be the Place, was named a Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

Christopher Castellani is the author of three novels, most recently All This Talk of Love, and numerous essays on writing. The artistic director of Grub Street, he is on the faculty of the MFA program at Warren Wilson and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.