Matthew Quinn Martin is the author of the novel Nightlife, as well as the forthcoming sequel Nightlife: As the Worm Turns and the writer of the motion picture Slingshot. He lectures in the communications department at Albertus Magnus College, New Haven.

Libby Cudmore is a fiction writer, sometimes screenwriter, and occasional film critic. She is represented by Jim McCarthy of Dystel & Goderich.

Elizabeth Searle is the author of four books of fiction and several works of theater. Her books are My Body to You, A Four-Sided Bed, Celebrities in Disgrace, and Girl Held in Home. Her theater work, Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera, has drawn national media attention. She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing at the University of Southern Maine.

Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of eleven books including This Is Paradise, about a medical clinic in Malawi. She teaches at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program and is writer in residence and director of the creative writing program at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

Donna Minkowitz's magical realist memoir, Growing Up Golem, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and was also shortlisted for the Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. Her first memoir, Ferocious Romance, won a Lammy. Minkowitz has also written for the New York Times Book Review, Salon, and the Village Voice.