Katie Raissian is an assistant editor at Grove Atlantic. She is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stonecutter Journal, based in Brooklyn, New York.

Josh Weil is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea and the novella collection The New Valley, a New York Times Editors' Choice that won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation.

Jamie Quatro is the author of the story collection I Want To Show You More. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2013, the Kenyon Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at the Oxford American magazine.

Rob Spillman is editor and co-founder of Tin House, a seventeen-year-old bi-coastal (Brooklyn, New York and Portland, Oregon) literary magazine, as well as the executive editor of Tin House Books and co-founder of the Tin House Writers Workshop, now in its twelfth year.

LaShonda Katrice Barnett is author of the debut novel Jam! On The Vine, a short story collection, and editor of three published or forthcoming interview books on the creative process with women musicians. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the College of William and Mary.