Heather Lanier is the author of the poetry collection, Psalms of Unknowing, and the memoir, Raising a Rare Girl, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. She teaches graduate and undergraduate creative writing at Rowan University, and her TED talk has been viewed three million times.

Sonya Huber is the author of eight books of nonfiction, including Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook, Voice First, Supremely Tiny Acts, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and Pain Woman Takes Your Keys. She teaches at Fairfield University. More at www.sonyahuber.com.

Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease, and the memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed. She coedited the feminist anthology Colonize This! and is an associate professor at Northwestern University.

Catina Bacote is a Jerome Hill Artist and American Association of University Women Fellow. Her essays have appeared in This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home, Ploughshares, Tin House, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and others. She is from New Haven, Connecticut, and teaches at Trinity College.

Jennifer Lunden (she/her) is the author of American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life, which was praised by the Los Angeles Review of Books and Washington Post, and called a “genre-bending masterpiece” by Hippocampus.