Spencer Hyde is the author of Waiting for Fitz, and his short fiction and nonfiction have recently appeared in Glimmer Train, Bellevue Literary Review, and Five Points. He is a founding editor of elsewhere, and an assistant professor of creative writing at Brigham Young University.

Jill Talbot is the author of The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in AGNI, Brevity, Hotel Amerika, and River Teeth, among others. She is associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas.

Nikki Lyssy studies creative writing at the University of North Texas. Her work has appeared in Essay Daily and Hobart. She plans to pursue an MFA after graduation.

Clinton Crockett Peters teaches at Berry College and wrote Pandora's Garden (essays). He's won prizes from Shenandoah, North American Review, Columbia Journal, and Crab Orchard Review. He holds an MFA from Iowa, a PhD from UNT, and has work in Orion, Southern Review, The Rumpus, and Hotel Amerika.

Kimberly Garza's stories and essays can be found in Creative Nonfiction, Copper Nickel, TriQuarterly, CutBank, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio and a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Texas.