Tasha Coryell received her MFA from the University of Alabama. She currently teaches full time at Alabama while simultaneously pursing a PhD in composition and rhetoric. Her first collection of short stories, Hungry People, came out in 2018 from Split Lip Press.

Brian Oliu is an Instructor at the University of Alabama. He is the author of four books of nonfiction and two chapbooks, ranging from Craigslist Missed Connections, to computer viruses, to 8-bit video games, to NBA basketball. Works in progress deal with pro wrestling and long-distance running.

Jonathan Wlodarski is a graduate of the Northeast Ohio MFA and is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Emily Geminder is the author of Dead Girls and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House online, and elsewhere. She is a PhD fellow in fiction at the University of Southern California.

Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night and How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, a collection of essays. Recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and an NEA in Fiction, he is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.