Alden Jones is the author of The Wanting Was a Wilderness, Unaccompanied Minors, and The Blind Masseuse, finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. She is co-director of the Cuba Writers Program and teaches at Emerson College and the Newport MFA Program.

Stacie Williams is a Chicago-based writer who has written book reviews, reported features, essays on pop culture and race, and short fiction. She is the director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Chicago.

Adam Colman is the author of New Uses for Failure and Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature. He has also written for The Believer, KCRW and McSweeney's Organist podcast, Pittsburgh City Paper, and more.

Stephanie Reents is the author of The Kissing List, which was an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, an account of coming to terms with the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Her awards include a Rhodes Scholarship and a Stegner Fellowship.

Kim Adrian is the author of The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, a memoir, and Sock, an Object Lessons book. Her third book, Letters to Knausgaard, is forthcoming this year. The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms is an anthology of lyric essays, edited by Kim.