Minna Proctor is the editor of The Literary Review and teaches essay writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is the author of Do You Hear What I Hear, a long essay about religious calling. She translates from Italian and writes frequently about literature and photography.

Richard Nash is vice president of Community and Content of Small Demons. From 2001 to 2009, he ran Soft Skull Press for which work he was awarded the AAP’s Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing in 2005. In 2010, the Utne Reader named him one of Fifty Visionaries Changing Your World.

Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochestera publishing house dedicated to promoting international literature in translation. He is also the managing editor of Three Percent, a website on translation and home to the Best Translated Book Awards.

Bud Parr is a web designer and strategist in New York City.

Russ Spitkovsky is a New York City based artist and the founder of Carrier Pigeon: Illustrated Fiction and Fine Art, an artist-run limited edition magazine.