Tara Propper has earned her MFA and PhD in English. She is currently an assistant professor of English and serves as the director of graduate studies in the department of literature and languages at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Matthew Kelly is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Tyler, whose research focuses on digital literacies, the use of new media technologies in the writing classroom, and the role of pedagogy in video games and gaming communities.

Michelle Whittaker is a Caribbean-American poet and author of Surge, awarded a Next Generation Indie Book Award for Poetry. She received a Pushcart Special Mention and NYFA Fellowship in Poetry. She has also served as poetry editor for the Southampton Review and teaches at Stony Brook University.