Susan Ito is the author of the memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere. She coedited the anthology A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, and on faculty at Mills College at Northeastern University.

Terry Tierney is the author of the irreverent Vietnam-era road novel, Lucky Ride, a poetry collection, The Poet’s Garage, and the upcoming rust belt romance, The Bridge on Beer River. He earned his BA and MA at SUNY Binghamton and a PhD at Emory before surviving several Silicon Valley startups.

Susanne Pari's second novel, In the Time of Our History, is the story of a multi-generational Iranian-American family. She was a 2023 IndieNext pick,Target Book Club pick, and a Hoopla Spotlight Selection. The gap between publication of her first and second novels is twenty-five years.

Sejal Shah is the author of the debut story collection, How to Make Your Mother Cry; Fictions, forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in May 2024. Her debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance, was an NPR Best Book of 2020. She is at work on a book about mental health and academia.

Sari Botton is writer and editor. She is a contributing editor at Catapult, and the former essays editor for Longreads. She edited the anthologies Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye. She teaches in the MFA programs at Wilkes University and Bay Path University, along with Catapult.