Zoë Bossiere is a doctoral candidate at Ohio University, where she studies creative nonfiction and rhetoric & composition. The managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, she is a podcast host for the New Books Network.

Erica Trabold is the author of Five Plots, selected by John D'Agata as the winner of the inaugural Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. She writes and teaches in central Virginia, where is a visiting assistant professor at Sweet Briar College.

Jenny Boully is the author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, The Body: An Essay, and other books. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Krys Malcolm Belc is a transmasculine essayist. He has published a chapbook of flash nonfiction, In Transit, and his essays have been featured in Granta, Brevity, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by the Sustainable Arts Foundation.

Lyzette Wanzer has received writing residencies at the Blue Mountain Center (NY) and KHN Center for the Arts (NE). She is the recipient of an Investing in Artists grant from Center for Cultural Innovation (2012) and an IAC grant from the SF Arts Commission (2013).