Chris Fischbach is publisher of Coffee House Press, a nonprofit literary press in Minneapolis. He joined Coffee House in 1995, and became publisher in 2011. He has served as co-chair of the Minneapolis Arts Commission and is currently on the board of the Friends of the Hennepin County LIbrary.

Richard Nash is vice president of community and content at Small Demons. From 2001-2009 he ran Soft Skull Press for which work he was awarded AAP's Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing in 2005. In 2010 the Utne Reader named him one of Fifty Visionaries Changing Your World. 

Eric Obenauf co-founded Two Dollar Radio and is its executive director. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, the Rumpus, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other places. He is the writer and director of the forthcoming feature film, I'm Not Patrick.

Lisa Lucas is a nonprofit arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to serving as publisher of Guernica magazine, Lisa consults for arts education organizations, serves on the Brooklyn Literary Council, and is co-chair of nonfiction for the Brooklyn Book Festival.