Rene Steinke is the author of the novels, Friendswood, Holy Skirts (a 2005 National Book Award finalist), and The Fires. She is the former editor of the Literary Review, where she is now editor-at-large. She directs the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

David Grand is a novelist who teaches workshops in fiction at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the author of three novels: Louse, The Disappearing Body, and Mount Terminus.

Thomas E. Kennedy’s thirty books include the four novels of his Copenhagen Quartet: Kerrigan in Copenhagen, Falling Sideways, In the Company of Angels, the fourth to follow. His stories, essays, and translations appear regularly in literary periodicals. He teaches in the Fairleigh Dickinson MFA program.