Steven LaFond is a fiction writer and essayist. He is a social media consultant at Agni and the social media manager at the National Brain Tumor Society where he hosts their community roundtable discussions.

EJ Levy’s debut story collection, Love, In Theory, won a Flannery O’Connor Award, a 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Award, and the 2014 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award; Editions Rivages will publish it in French. Her work appears in Best American Essays, The New York Times, and Paris Review, and won a Pushcart Prize.

Nathan Poole is the author of the story collection, Father Brother Keeper, winner of the 2013 Mary McCarthy Prize, selected by judge Edith Pearlman and published by Sarabande Books. He has been awarded the Narrative Prize and fellowships from the Milton Center and Warren Wilson College.

Kate Milliken's debut collection of stories, If I'd Known You Were Coming, won the 2013 John Simmons Award for Short Fiction, judged by Julie Orringer. Kate's writing has appeared in Zzyzyva, Fiction, the New Orleans Review, and Meridian, among others, and she has previously written for television.

Alden Jones is the author of Unaccompanied Minors, winner of the New American Fiction Prize, and The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing and Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet.