Mike Harvkey is the author of the novel, In the Course of Human Events, and a graduate fellow of Columbia University's creative writing MFA program. His writing has appeared in Mississippi Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Zoetrope, the Believer, NYLON, and Publishers Weekly.

Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Spectacle, Hydroplane and The End of Free Love. She teaches at the University of San Francisco.

Tom Franklin is the author of Poachers, Hell at the Breech, Smonk, Crooked Letter, and, with Beth Ann Fennelly, The Tilted World. He teaches at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.

Skip Horack is the author of the story collection The Southern Cross, as well as the novels The Eden Hunter and The Other Joseph. He teaches at Florida State University.

Christian Kiefer is author of the novels The Infinite Tides and The Animals. He holds a PhD in American literature from the University of California, Davis, and is a published poet and songwriter.