Philip Graham is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Chamapign and the VCFA MFA in Writing program, and is a co-founder and an editor of Ninth Letter.

Dinty W.Moore is author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, as well as the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Book Prize. Editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, he lives in Athens, Ohio.

John Warner is the author of The Funny Man. A weekly columnist for the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row book supplement, he is a blogger for Inside Higher Ed. He is also an editor for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and commentator for the Tournament of Books. Warner teaches at the College of Charleston.

Harmony Neal is the 2011-2013 Fiction Fellow at Emory University. Her essays and short stories have been recently published or are forthcoming in Grist, New Letters, the Gettysburg Review, Paper Darts, and storySouth.