Lisa Page is coeditor of We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing. Her work has appeared in VQR, Playboy, The Washington Post Bookworld, The Crisis, Origins, and American Short Fiction, and in several anthologies. She directs the creative writing program at George Washington University.

Sybil Baker's most recent works are Immigration Essays and While You Were Gone (novel). She teaches at UT Chattanooga (A&S Teaching Award), VCFA's low-residency International MFA, and the Yale Writer's Workshop. She is on the editorial board of UT Press. 

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the nonfiction books Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations, Southside Buddhist, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy. He is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College and the editor of Sweet: A Literary Confection.

Robin Hemley is the founder of the NonfictioNow Conference and the author of fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including the forthcoming Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcarts.

Leah Huizar is the author of Inland Empire, a forthcoming book of poems. Her writing and research interests draw on the cultural history of the west, Latinidad, and book culture. She is an assistant professor of poetry at Drake University.