David Ebenbach is the author of eight books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including the novel How to Mars. He teaches creative writing and literature at Georgetown University, and is a project manager at Georgetown’s teaching center, the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.

Margaret Luongo teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Miami University, where she also serves as assistant director for the Literary London study abroad program. She is the author of two story collections, If the Heart is Lean and History of Art.

Jaymee Goh writes, reviews, and edits speculative fiction. Her work has been published in Science Fiction Studies, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She is a graduate from the Clarion Workshop and works for Tachyon Publications.

Amy Toland is a poet, editor, and English department administrator. For the past decade she’s served as managing editor at Miami University Press, a small publisher of poetry, poetry-in-translation, and novellas based in Oxford, Ohio.

Delaney Heisterkamp (she/her) is a marketer at HarperCollins Children's Books, where she works with middle grade and teen fiction as well as EpicReads, the internet's largest book community. Her work has been published by the Academy of American Poets, F(r)iction, and Indiana Review.