Erika Krouse's fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Esquire.com, and Ploughshares. Her collection of short stories, Come Up and See Me Sometime, won the Paterson Fiction Award, and was translated into six languages. Her novel, Contenders, will be published in 2015.

Carrie Mesrobian is a YA author of two books (Sex & Violence; Perfectly Good White Boy). She teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has an MFA in fiction writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

Jennifer Dodgson is the education director at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she has created literary arts programs for adults, kids, and teens since 2007.

William Haywood Henderson was a Wallace Stegner fellow in creative writing at Stanford University and is the author of three novels: Native, The Rest of the Earth, and Augusta Locke. He teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.

Beth Smelser Nelson’s writing has appeared in numerous literary journals. She has been awarded residencies at Jentel, Hill House, and Brush Creek Ranch. Beth is working on her short story collection, Rurality. Her blog, You’ve Got to Start Someplace, is available on Wordpress.