Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University. He is author of The American Essay in the American Century, co-author of Writing Fiction, co-editor of Essayists on the Essay, and book review editor of Fourth Genre. His essays have appeared in journals such as Missouri Review, Pinch, and Guernica.

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

Kristen Radtke, the marketing and publicity director for Sarabande Books, has an MFA from the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program, and she is currently working on a graphic memoir about abandoned places and an anthology of essays from twenty-something perspectives with writer Lucas Mann.

John Bresland is an essayist who works in film, radio, and print. His work can be seen at Blackbird and Ninth Letter, read in Brevity and North American Review, and heard on public radio. He is film editor of TriQuarterly, and teaches creative writing at Northwestern.