Colin Rafferty is the author of Hallow This Ground, a collection of essays on memorials, published by Break Away Books/Indiana University Press. He teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Brian Oliu is an instructor at the University of Alabama and director of the Slash Pine Press Internship. He is the author of four books of nonfiction and two chapbooks, ranging from Craigslist Missed Connections, to computer viruses, to Google Maps, to 8-bit video games, to the arcade game NBA Jam.

Kristen Radtke's first book, a graphic memoir, is forthcoming. She is the managing editor of Sarabande Books and the film editor of TriQuarterly magazine. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program.

Lucas Mann is the author of Lord Fear: A Memoir and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere. His essays have appeared in TriQuarterly, Slate, BuzzFeed, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He earned his MFA from the University of Iowa and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.