Robin Black is the author of the collection If I loved you, I would tell you this and the novel Life Drawing. She has taught at Bryn Mawr College and the Brooklyn College MFA Program. Her next book, Crash Course: 52 Essays from Where Writing and Life Collide, is forthcoming.

Dylan Landis is the author of the novel Rainey Royal, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and the linked story collection Normal People Don't Live Like This. She has won a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction, and her work has appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories.

Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel, Queen Sugar. She graduated from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers. She has had residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Hedgebrook.

Steven Schwartz is the author of the novels Therapy and A Good Doctor’s Son and the story collections To Leningrad in Winter, Lives of the Fathers, and Little Raw Souls. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and is the fiction editor for the Colorado Review.