Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is a former fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She is an assistant professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Her debut novel Malas is forthcoming from Viking Books.

Temim Fruchter is a queer, nonbinary Jewish writer living in Brooklyn. She is the recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and the DC Arts Commission, as well as a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Her debut novel, City of Laughter (Grove Atlantic), is out January 2024.

Jon Hickey (Anishinaabe) is the author of Big Chief, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. His stories have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, and The Massachusetts Review. He earned an MFA from Cornell University and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Chin-Sun Lee is the author of the debut novel, Upcountry (Unnamed Press, 2023). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Joyland, and the Believer Logger, among other publications. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, and lives in New Orleans.

Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. A 2021 Out100 Honoree, her writing has been supported by MacDowell and Tin House, and widely published. Her debut novel, When The Harvest Comes, is forthcoming from Random House.