Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder & A Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, and the Prix France Inter-JDD and was translated into nine languages. They are an assistant professor at Bowdoin.

Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of The Third Rainbow Girl. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Granta, Tin House, VQR, Zyzzyva, AGNI, Vice, the New Republic, and others. She co-directs Blue Stoop, a hub for the literary arts in Philadelphia.

Meredith Talusan is an award-winning author and journalist who has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Wired, among many other publications, and has contributed to several essay collections. Her debut memoir, Fairest, is forthcoming.

Steph Cha is the author of Follow Her Home, Beware Beware, Dead Soon Enough, and her recent fourth novel, Your House Will Pay. She’s the noir editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.

Rachel Monroe is the author of Savage Appetites, a book of meta-true crime. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Believer, and Best American Travel Writing. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Fulbright Foundation.