Amber Tamblyn is an author, actress, and director. She is the author of three collections of poetry including the critically acclaimed, Dark Sparkler, the novel Any Man, and most recently, Era of Ignition. She writes for The New York Times.

Roxane Gay is the author of An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and Hunger. She has work in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel The Book of Joan and the bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children, as well as the the antimemoir The Chronology of Water. She founded the Corporeal Writing Workshops.