Angela Pneuman's work includes Lay It on My Heart, a novel, and Home Remedies, a book of short stories. She received a Stegner fellowship from Stanford, a Presidential fellowship from SUNY Albany, and the Alice Hoffman prize from Ploughshares. She teaches in Stanford's Online Writers Studio.

Michelle Blankenship worked sixteen years as an in-house publicist at John Wiley & Sons, Picador USA, Harcourt, and Bloomsbury. Former authors include Günter Grass, Wisława Szymborska, Umberto Eco, Kaye Gibbons, Roger Angell, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Jesmyn Ward, to name a few. She went freelance in April of 2013.

Jesmyn Ward is the author of Men We Reaped, which won the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction; Salvage the Bones, which won the National Book Award for Fiction; and Where the Line Bleeds. She has published in Oxford American, BOMB Magazine, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She teaches at Tulane University.

Amy S.F. Lutz's writing about autism and other issues she has encountered as the mother of five children has been featured on the websites Slate and Babble; her book Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children was just published by Vanderbilt University Press.

Peggy Shinner is the author of You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body. Her work has appeared on Salon, and in BOMB, the Colorado Review, the Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Bloom, and other publications. A lifelong Chicagoan, she teaches in the MFA program at Northwestern University.