Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists, Notes from No Man's Land, and On Immunity: An Inoculation.

Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times best-selling essay collection The Empathy Exams. Her first novel, The Gin Closet, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize. She is a regular columnist for the New York Times Book Review.

Maggie Nelson's nonfiction books include The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning; Bluets; Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions; The Red Parts; and The Argonauts (forthcoming). She is also the author of four books of poems, including Jane: A Murder and Something Bright, Then Holes.

Claudia Rankine is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Citizen: An American Lyric. She teaches at Pomona College.