Marisa Siegel holds an MFA in poetry from Mills College in Oakland, California. Her poems have appeared in Handsome, Zaum, (T)here, and elsewhere. Her essay "Inherited Anger" appears in the anthology Burn It Down. She is editor in chief and owner of The Rumpus.

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart, the essay collection Abandon Me, and the forthcoming Girlhood. The inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary, she is associate professor of creative nonfiction at Monmouth University.

Suleika Jaouad is the author of the Emmy Award-winning Life, Interrupted column and video series in the New York Times. She has also written for the New York Times Magazine, NPR, National Geographic, and Vogue. Her first book, Between Two Kingdoms, is forthcoming.

Marissa Korbel is an essayist and attorney who focuses on the impacts of gender-based violence. Her work appears monthly on The Rumpus, and has been featured on Harper's Bazaar, Bitch magazine, Guernica, and others. She is a graduate of Mills College and Lewis and Clark Law School.

Hafizah Geter's poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Longreads, Tin House, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and Narrative magazine, among others. She is on the board of Writ. and is an editor at Little A & TOPPLE Books from Amazon Publishing.