Daniel Torday is the author of the novel The Last Flight of Poxl West, winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award for fiction. Recent work has appeared in Tin House, Paris Review Daily, and The New York Times Book Review. He teaches at Bryn Mawr College.

Airea D. Matthews is the author of Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. A past recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, she teaches at Bryn Mawr College.

Miciah Bay Gault's debut novel is Goodnight Stranger. She's faculty in the MFA in Writing & Publishing at VCFA and coordinator of the Vermont Book Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Tin House, Southern Review, AGNI, and NYTimes.

Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden, Mixology, and The Big Smoke, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. His new book is Map to the Stars. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and is poet laureate of Indiana.

Erin Belieu is the author of five poetry collections, including Slant Six, chosen by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2014, and the forthcoming Come Hither Honeycomb. Recent poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, APR, New York Times, and Kenyon Review.