Kima Jones is a 2013 PEN USA Emerging Voices fellow in poetry, a Kimbilio fiction fellow, Voices at VONA alum, and Lambda Literary fellow in poetry. She is writing her first poetry collection, The Anatomy of Forgiveness.

Benjamin Percy is the author of two novels, Red Moon and The Wilding, as well as two story collections, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. He is a contributing editor at Esquire.

Edan Lepucki is the author of a novel, California, and a novella, If You're Not Yet Like Me. She is the founder and director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles, and a staff writer for the Millions. Her short stories have been published in McSweeney’s, Narrative magazine, and Meridian, among others.

Samantha Dunn wrote the novel Failing Paris and the memoirs Not By Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life and Faith in Carlos Gomez. Her essays and short stories are widely anthologized. She is a reporter at the Orange County Register and teaches in the University of California, Los Angeles Extension Writers Program.

Chris L. Terry is the author of the hip-hop influenced YA novel Zero Fade. He has a fiction writing MFA from Columbia College Chicago, where he also works in multicultural affairs.