Peter Grandbois is the author of four books, including most recently a collection of fictions, Domestic Disturbances; a novel, Nahoonkara; and The Arsenic Lobster, a memoir. He is associate editor at Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University.

John Rowell is the author of The Music of Your Life (finalist—2004 Ferro-Gumley Prize). His stage adaptation of the book premiered in London's West End. His work has appeared in Tin House and Bloom, among others. He teaches English and creative writing at Baltimore's Gilman School.

Alan Heathcock is the author of VOLT. He has won a National Magazine Award, an NEA fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. He is a literature fellow for the state of Idaho and teaches at Boise State University.

Goldie Goldbloom’s novel, The Paperbark Shoe, won the AWP Prize for the Novel. Her short fiction has been published in a collection, You Lose These, and in journals such as Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Narrative. She teaches at Northwestern University and recently received an NEA grant and a Dora Maar fellowship.