Constance Squires is the author of the novel Along the Watchtower, for which she received the Oklahoma Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in the Atlantic, the Village Voice, This Land, the Dublin Quarterly, and Ginkgo Tree Review. She teaches fiction writing at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, five short story collections, including the forthcoming Empire of the Dead, biographies of Donald Barthelme and Joseph Heller, and a book of personal essays. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Chase Dearinger holds an MFA from the University of Central Oklahoma and is currently a Helen DeVitt Jones fellow in the doctoral program in creative writing at Texas Tech University. He is the fiction editor at Arcadia as well as a managing editor at Iron Horse Literary Review.

Rilla Askew is the author of four novels and a book of stories. She is a PEN/Faulkner finalist and the recipient of a 2009 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her recent novel is Kind of Kin. She teaches at University of Arkansas.