Danielle Dutton is the author of Attempts at a Life and Sprawl. She is an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis and the editor of Dorothy, a publishing project.

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of Fra Keeler. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in BOMB, the Coffin Factory, the American Reader, and in the anthologies State of the Union, and &Now Awards II: The Best Innovative Writing. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Notre Dame.

Amina Cain is the author of the short story collections Creature and I Go To Some Hollow.

Joanna Ruocco co-edits Birkensnake. She is the author of The Mothering Coven, Man's Companions, A Compendium of Domestic Incidents, and Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych. Her new novel Dan is forthcoming.

Suzanne Scanlon is the author of a novel, Promising Young Women, and a forthcoming work of creative nonfiction titled Her 37th Year, An Index. New fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Spolia and MAKE. She teaches in Chicago.