Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two short story collections, This Life She's Chosen and Swimming With Strangers.

Jodi Angel’s collection of short stories, You Only Get Letters From Jail, was released in July 2013 and named a Best Book of Summer by Esquire magazine and a notable new release by The New York Times. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Tin House, One Story, and Zoetrope: All Story.

Pam Houston is the author of five books of fiction and nonfiction including Cowboys Are My Weakness and Contents May Have Shifted. She is director of Creative Writing at UC Davis, and teaches in the Pacific University low-res program.

Gregory Spatz is the author of three novels and two short story collections, most recently Inukshuk (2012) and Half as Happy (2013). Recipient of a 2012 NEA Literature Fellowship and a Washington State Book Award, he teaches in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University, in Spokane.

Josh Weil is the author of the novella collection The New Valley, a New York Times Editors Choice that won the Sue Kaufman Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 5-under-35 Award from the National Book Foundation. His novel, The Great Glass Sea, will be published in early 2014.