Arna Bontemps Hemenway is the author of Elegy on Kinderklavier. His fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Ecotone, AQR, FiveChapters, and the Missouri Review. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Baylor University.

Jamie Quatro is the author of the story collection I Want To Show You More. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2013, the Kenyon Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at the Oxford American magazine.

Laura van den Berg is the author of the short story collections The Isle of Youth, which received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us. She is a 2014-2015 faculty fellow in fiction at Colby College.

Julia Fierro's novel, Cutting Teeth, was one of the most anticipated debuts of 2014. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Millions, and Poets & Writers. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she founded the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop in 2002, a creative home to 2,500+ NYC writers.

Nickolas Butler is the author of the novel Shotgun Lovesongs, a forthcoming collection of stories entitled The Chainsaw Soiree, and a collection of poetry, entitled Light Travels Faster Downhill.