Christa Fraser grew up in California's Central Valley. A graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in fiction, she has also been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared in the Missouri Review and Shankpainter.

Pamela Marston, University of Iowa International Writing Program, has taught and designed literature and creative writing at university level for over twenty years, in hybrid, online, and campus course types. Her course designs at the IWP from 2018 onwards promote emerging genres and inclusion.

Derek Nnuro, a Ghanaian American fiction writer and educator, is Curator of Special Projects at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art and a graduate of the fiction program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. What Napoleon Could Not Do, his debut novel, is forthcoming from Riverhead.

Micah Bateman teaches library and information science at the University of Iowa, where he has produced Massive Open Online Courses and taught creative writing online since 2013. He is coauthor of Mapping the Imaginary: Supporting Creative Writers through Programming, Prompts, and Research.

Danielle Wheeler is an online course designer and adjunct instructor of writing, literature, and rhetoric. She graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in poetry and was the 2010-2011 Rona Jaffe fellow in creative writing. She currently works and teaches in Iowa City, Iowa.