Nicole Louise Reid is the author of the story collection So There! and the novel In the Breeze of Passing Things. Her stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West, and Meridian. She is editor of RopeWalk Press and teaches fiction at University of Southern Indiana.

Jill McCorkle is the author of four short story collections and six novels including her most recent, Life After Life. Her stories have appeared in various periodicals as well as Best American Short Stories and The Norton Anthology. She teaches at at NC State and the Bennington Writing Program.

Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. A novel, Remember Me Like This, is forthcoming in May 2014. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University.

David James Poissant is the author of The Heaven of Animals. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Playboy, and One Story. He teaches fiction writing in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.