Edan Lepucki is the author of a novel, California, and a novella, If You're Not Yet Like Me. She's the founder and codirector of Writing Workshops LA, and a staff writer for The Millions. Her work has been published in McSweeney’s, Narrative magazine, and the New York Times, among others.

Julia Fierro is the author of the novels Cutting Teeth and The Gypsy Moth Summer. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she founded The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop in 2002, now a creative home to over 2,500 NYC writers.

Sonya Larson is the assistant director of the Muse & the Marketplace literary conference, hosted by GrubStreet. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in West Branch, Poets & Writers, Del Sol Review, the Red Mountain Review, and more. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and VSC.

Michelle Wildgen is executive editor at Tin House, author of the novels You're Not You, But Not For Long, and Bread and Butter, and editor of the anthology Food & Booze. In 2012, she cofounded the Madison Writers' Studio with novelist Susanna Daniel.

Jason Koo is the author of America's Favorite Poem and Man on Extremely Small Island. An assistant professor of English at Quinnipiac University, he is also the founder and executive director of Brooklyn Poets and creator of The Bridge.