Gonzalo Baeza is the author of the short story collection La ciudad de los hoteles vacios (The city of vacant hotels). His fiction has been published in The Texas Review, Boulevard, and Estados Hispanos de América, among others.

Joseph D. Haske is a writer and critic whose debut novel is North Dixie Highway. His fiction appears in journals such as Boulevard, Fiction International, Texas Review, Four Way Review, Pleiades, and in the Chicago Tribune's literary supplement, Printers Row.

Jodi Angel’s collection of short stories, You Only Get Letters From Jail, was named a Best Best Book of 2013 by Esquire. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Tin House, One Story, Zoetrope: All Story, Electric Literature: Recommended Reading, The Offing, and Best American Mystery Stories 2014.

Daniel M. Mendoza is the editor of Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers. He is an assistant editor at Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing. His fiction and essays have appeared in journals across the country.