Lisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, Late Empire, and a book-length lyric-essay Pain Studies. She teaches in the New Writers Project and Michener Center for Writers MFA programs at UT Austin.

Paul Lisicky is the author of six books including Later, The Narrow Door, and Unbuilt Projects. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is an associate professor in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden and serves on the writing committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Heather Christle is the author of The Crying Book (a work of nonfiction), and four poetry collections, most recently Heliopause. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Emory University.

T Kira Madden is a lesbian, APIA writer. She is the author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, and serves as the founding editor in chief of No Tokens.