Danika Dinsmore is a writer, educator, and spokenword artist. She writes poetry and speculative fiction with a focus on middle grade and young adult literature. She teaches creative writing and world-building to students of all ages at schools, conferences, and festivals across North America.

E. Lily Yu received the 2017 Artist Trust/Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award. Her short stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards and have appeared in Hazlitt, McSweeney's, Boston Review, and Clarkesworld, as well as multiple best-of-the-year anthologies.

Dominica Phetteplace is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer's Workshop. Her work has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, [PANK], The Los Angeles Review, Clarkesworld, and Zyzzyva. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Award, and a MacDowell Fellowship.