Leora Fridman is author of My Fault, among other works of prose, poetry, and translation. She holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has been an editor, critic, and curator of small press, interdisciplinary, and experimental work since 2006.

Chelsea Leu is the book reviews editor at The Rumpus and a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, and others. Formerly, she was an assistant research editor and writer at Wired.

Ismail Muhammad is the reviews editor at The Believer, contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, and a PhD candidate in English at University of California, Berkeley. His nonfiction and criticism have appeared in Slate, Paris Review, The Nation, Bookforum, and other venues. He's at work on a novel about the Great Migration.

Caroline Crew is the author of Pink Museum, as well as several chapbooks. She serves as poetry editor for New South and editorial assistant for Five Points.  Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at Georgia State University, after earning an MA at the University of Oxford and an MFA at UMass-Amherst.