Elizabeth Poliner is the author of As Close to Us as Breathing (novel, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize), Mutual Life & Casualty (linked stories), and What You Know In Your Hands (poems). She's published in Story, Kenyon Review, and The Sun, among others, and has taught at Hollins University.

Margot Singer is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue, and a short story collection, The Pale of Settlement, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award. She is also the coeditor of Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor at Denison University.

Rachel Kadish is the author of the novels The Weight of Ink, From a Sealed Room, and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story, and the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and on NPR, has won a National Jewish Book Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sarah Seltzer is the executive editor at Lilith Magazine, a forty-five-year-old journal of Jewish feminist journalism, fiction, poetry, and art. She is a journalist, critic, and novelist: her debut novel, The Singer Sisters (Flatiron), the story of two generations of female folk singers, is forthcoming.

Lauren Grodstein is the author of six books, including We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Our Short History, and A Friend of the Family. She directs the MFA Program at Rutgers University, Camden.