Alan Michael Parker is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Ladder, and three novels, including The Committee on Town Happiness. He is Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, and faculty in the University of Tampa low-residency MFA program.

Jeff Jackson is the author of the novel Mira Corpora, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Vice, and the Collagist. Five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award-winning Collapsable Giraffe company in New York City.

Kate Bernheimer is the author of three novels and two story collections including Horse, Flower, Bird. The World Fantasy Award-winning editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: 40 New Fairy Tales and xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona.

Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Spectacle, Hydroplane, and The End of Free Love. She teaches at the University of San Francisco.