Donna Minkowitz's magical realist memoir, Growing Up Golem, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and for the Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. Her first memoir, Ferocious Romance, won a Lammy. She has written for the New York Times Book Review and Salon, and is the restaurant critic for Gay City News in New York.

Catherine Liu is professor of visual studies and Film and media studies at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Oriental Girls Desire Romance. She has published on psychoanalysis, Frankfurt School, and critical theory. She is at work on a memoir called Panda Gift.

M.G. Lord is the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, Astro Turf, an informal history of NASA's JPL, and The Accidental Feminist. She teaches at USC and the Yale Writers Conference. A former political cartoonist for Newsday, she is working on a graphic novel.

Sesshu Foster's most recent books are the novel Atomik Aztex, winner of the Believer magazine Award, and the hybrid text World Ball Notebook, winner of the American Book Award. He has taught composition and literature in East LA for thirty years.

Carol Guess is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Tinderbox Lawn, Darling Endangered, and Doll Studies: Forensics. She is professor of English at Western Washington University, where she teaches creative writing and queer studies.