Torsa Ghosal is the author of an experimental novella, Open Couplets, and a book of literary criticism, Out of Mind. Her work has appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review, Catapult, Lit Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is a professor of English at California State University and is at work on a novel.

Autumn Fourkiller is a writer and mystic from the so-called Early Death Capital of the World. They are currently at work on a novel about Indigenous identity, the Olympics, and climate change. Their work can be found in Atlas Obscura, Longreads, Electric Lit, and elsewhere.

Colleen Morrissey is an O. Henry Prize-winning author and scholar of humanities with work most recently appearing in The Rumpus and The Southern Review. She is the fiction editor for Cottonwood and currently teaches English at the University of Kansas. She is at work on her debut novel.

Silvia Park is a Korean/American writer and assistant professor of English at the University of Kansas. Their work has been published in Black Warrior Review, Tor.com, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, among others. Their debut novel, Luminous, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in 2025.

Preeti Vangani is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize, winner of the RL Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Threepenny Review and Gulf Coast among others. She is the winner of the 2022 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize and has been a resident at UCross & Djerassi. She holds an MFA from USF.