Katharine Beutner is an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her novel Alcestis won the 2011 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and her writing has appeared in Public Books, TriQuarterly, the Toast, and other publications. She has an MA and a PhD from UT Austin.

Sofia Samatar is the author of the novel A Stranger in Olondria. She coedits the journal Interfictions and teaches literature at California State University Channel Islands.

Carmen Maria Machado is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, NPR, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, VICE, and elsewhere. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop.

Alice Sola Kim's fiction has recently been published or is forthcoming in Tin House, McSweeney's Literary Quarterly, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.

Kelly Link is the author of Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and the forthcoming collection Get in Trouble. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. With Gavin J. Grant, she runs Small Beer Press.