Julie Sheehan’s three poetry collections are Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise, Orient Point, and Thaw. Her honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and NYFA fellowship in poetry. She teaches in and directs the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

Susan Scarf Merrell is the author most recently of Shirley: A Novel, a psychological thriller about the novelist Shirley Jackson. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing and literature at Stony Brook Southampton and is fiction editor of TSR: The Southampton Review.

Whitney Gaines is a graduate student, assistant professor, popular blogger, and some-time editor. She attends Stony Brook Southampton University focusing in creative nonfiction and teaches at Stony Brook University. Her blog has over 10,000 followers and is a recommended humor blog on WordPress.

Zachary Lazar is the author of the novels Sway and I Pity the Poor Immigrant, and the memoir Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowhip and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. He is an associate professor at Tulane University.

Lou Ann Walker is the editor-in-chief of TSR: The Southampton Review. The author of A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in the Family, as well as many other books and articles, she is a professor at Stony Brook Southampton.