Michael Khandelwal writes and publishes fiction and poetry and teaches workshops for the Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, Virginia, for which he is the Executive Director (and co-founder). He is a columnist for Coastal Virginia Magazine and a former webmaster for the American Council on Education.

Shawn Girvan received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. His work has appeared in the Pitkin Review, Wraparound South, and West Texas Literary Review. Shawn currently teaches and works at the Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, Virginia, and is finishing his first memoir.

Maggie Marshall is a fiction writer and award-winning screenwriter, and is the cofounder of the Flatiron Writers Room in Asheville, North Carolina. She has written for numerous 1-hour TV dramas, is currently at work on a novel, and has had fiction and nonfiction pieces published in The Great Smokies Review.

Melissa Wyse is a fiction writer and essayist. She has held residencies at MacDowell, VCCA, and Ragdale. Her work appears in publications including Shenandoah, The Rumpus, Momus, and Urbanite, and her first book is forthcoming from Chronicle. She founded and directs the Idlewild Writers Retreat.