Julia Koets is the author of Hold Like Owls, a collection of poetry. Her work has been published in journals such as Indiana Review and the Los Angeles Review. She is currently a PhD student in poetry at the University of Cincinnati.

Julie Marie Wade is the author of four collections of prose, Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires, Tremolo, and Catechism: A Love Story, and four collections of poetry, Without, Postage Due, When I Was Straight, and SIX. She teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University.

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and an IPPY Gold Medal in Nonfiction, and My Lesbian Husband, winner of a Stonewall Book Award. She's a faculty member at DePaul University in Chicago, where she edits the nonfiction journal Slag Glass City.

Paul Lisicky is the author of five books including The Narrow Door, Unbuilt Projects, and The Burning House. He teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Ryan Van Meter's essay collection is If You Knew Then What I Know Now. His work has also appeared in journals and anthologies, including Best American Essays. A recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he teaches at the University of San Francisco.