Leslie Jamison's first collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Her work has appeared in publications including Harper's, Oxford American, the Believer, and A Public Space, and her debut novel Gin Closet, was a finalist for the LA Times First Fiction Prize.

Julia Cooke's essays, profiles, and cultural criticism have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Village Voice, the Paris Review Daily, and the Atlantic. Her book, All the Young Punks: Grandchildren of the Cuban Revolution in Post-Fidel Havana, is forthcoming.

Mark Sundeen is the author of the books The Man Who Quit Money, The Making of Toro, and Car Camping. A correspondent for Outside magazine, his nonfiction appears in The New York Times magazine, the Believer, and McSweeney's. He teaches at the MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University.

Jennifer Percy is the author of the nonfiction book Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Pushcart Prize, and an Iowa Arts Fellowship.