Alexander Lumans was awarded a 2018 NEA fellowship in prose. He was the Spring 2014 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell, and he was a 2015 Fellow on The Arctic Circle Residency. He has attended MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, which received a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation, the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Princeton.

Joanna Luloff is the author of the short story collection The Beach at Galle Road and the novel Remind Me Again What Happened. She is an associate professor at The University of Colorado Denver where she edits fiction and nonfiction for the journal Copper Nickel.

Khadijah Queen is the author of five books, most recently I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. Her verse play Non-Sequitur won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at University of Colorado, Boulder.

Jane Wong's poems can be found in Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, jubilat, and others. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the US Fulbright Program, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Hedgebrook. She is the author of Overpour.