Kristiana Kahakauwila is the author of This is Paradise, a collection of short stories about contemporary Hawaii. Recent work has appeared in GEO International, Mission at Tenth, and Chaminade Literary Review. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Western Washington University.

Boris Fishman is the author of the novel A Replacement Life. His reporting, essays, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine, the New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, and the London Review of Books.

Whitney Terrell is the author of The Huntsman, The King of Kings County, and The Good Lieutenant (forthcoming). His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and on NPR. He serves as writer in residence for the University of Missouri-Kansas City's MFA program.

Pinckney Benedict has published a novel and three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is Miracle Boy and Other Stories. He serves as a professor in the MFA program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte.

Julie Sarkissian's debut novel, Dear Lucy, was long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Other fiction, criticism, and essays have appeared in various publications. She received her BA from Princeton University and MFA in fiction from the New School. She is a fiction instructor.