Susannah Nevison is the author of two books of poetry: Lethal Theater, winner of the Wheeler Poetry Prize, and Teratology, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She teaches at Sweet Briar College.

Erica Jong, celebrated poet, novelist and essayist with over twenty-five books published in forty-five languages, including international best-sellers, Fear of Flying & Fear of Dying. She’s adapting her favorite novel, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones for an unlimited television series and has a new poetry volume due for release.

Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of over twenty books, encompassing poetry, fiction, memoir, and drama. Titles include Flannelwood, The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories, and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology. A Lambda Literary Award finalist, he has been nominated nine times for the Pushcart Prize.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel The Book of Joan and the bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children, as well as the the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water. She founded the Corporeal Writing Workshops.