Marjorie Sandor has written four books, including the recent memoir, The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction. She won the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and the Oregon Book Award for Nonfiction. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, her work has twice appeared in Best American Short Stories.

Karen Russell’s novel, Swamplandia!, was chosen by The New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2011,” was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of the celebrated short story collections, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. The recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and the MacArthur Foundation, she has been featured in the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list, was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, and received the “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation.

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.

Steve Stern is the author of eleven books, including The Wedding Jester, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American fiction. He has been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim and Fulbright foundations.

Kelly Link is the author of Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and the forthcoming collection Get in Trouble. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. With Gavin J. Grant, she runs Small Beer Press.