Arielle Bernstein is a writer and cultural critic whose work has been featured in the Atlantic, the Guardian, Salon, AV Club, and Tablet magazine. She is a professorial lecturer at American University in Washington, DC, where she teaches academic and creative writing.

Eileen G’Sell's criticism and poetry can be found in Salon, Vice, Boston Review, and the Millions, among other forums. She teaches rhetoric and film at Washington University in St. Louis and creative writing for the Prison Education Project. Her first book is Life after Rugby.

Shanon Lee is a survivor activist and storyteller with features on National Geographic, HuffPost Live, The Wall Street Journal, TV One, and the REELZ Channel’s Scandal Made Me Famous. She is a contributor for Forbes and The Lily at The Washington Post.

Amanda Parrish Morgan is an essayist writing (mostly) about teaching, motherhood, literature, and long distance running. Connect with her on Twitter: @ap10k Instagram: @amandaparrishmorgan.

Shani Gilchrist is a freelance journalist, essayist, and critic who seeks to highlight the nuance in America's history and discourse. Her work has appeared in Tthe Literary Hub and the Daily Beast, with essays about race, gender, and inequality in Catapult, the Toast, Longreads, and elsewhere.