Asta So is the editorial director at Submittable. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana and a BA in English literature from Stanford University. She previously worked at Google in Silicon Valley as a corporate trainer and search engine marketing specialist.

Jennifer 8. Lee is CEO and cofounder of Plympton, a literary studio. A former New York Times reporter, she is also the author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles and the producer of the documentary, The Search for General Tso. She serves on the board of the a Digital Public Library of America.

James Yeh is the culture editor at VICE and a founding editor of Gigantic. His fiction and nonfiction appears in Tin House, the Paris Review Daily, BOMB, and NOON. He is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Center for Fiction, and Hub City Writers Project.

Mensah Demary is the associate web editor for Catapult, and the editor of Specter magazine. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in PANK, Electric Literature, Salon, and elsewhere. He also cohosts LIT: A Music and Reading Series.