Kristen Millares Young is a prizewinning journalist, essayist, and author of the novel Subduction (Red Hen Press). Named a Paris Review staff pick, Subduction won Nautilus and IPPY awards. The editor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist, Kristen reviews books for the Washington Post.

Patricia Henley is the author of four collections of stories and two novels. Her first novel, Hummingbird House, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first collection of stories won the Montana First Book Award. She taught for twenty-seven years in the MFA program at Purdue University.

Puloma Ghosh is a fiction writer living in Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in One Story, CRAFT as a 2020 Flash Fiction Contest Winner, and elsewhere. She is a 2021 Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar and received her MFA from Bennington College, where she was the spring 2020 teaching fellow.

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of three short story collections: This Life She's Chosen, Swimming with Strangers, and What We Do with the Wreckage, which won the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She teaches fiction writing at Hugo House and lives near Seattle.

Kelly Sundberg is the author of the memoir Goodbye, Sweet Girl. Her essays appear in Best American Essays 2015, Guernica, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, the New York Times, and elsewhere. She has a Phd in creative writing and is an assistant professor of English at Ashland University.