Rene Steinke is the author of the novels, Holy Skirts, a 2005 National Book Award Finalist, and The Fires. She is the former editor of The Literary Review, where she is now editor-at-large. She directs the Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

David Grand is a novelist who teaches workshops in fiction at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the author of Louse, a New York Times notable book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, The Disappearing Body, and the forthcoming Mount Terminus.

James Owen Weatherall is assistant professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book The Physics of Wall Street.

H. L. Hix is the author of over twenty books of poetry, translation, and criticism. His most recent poetry collection is As Much As, If Not More Than.