Maya Sonenberg is the author of the story collections Cartographies and Voices from the Blue Hotel. More recent fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Diagram, Web Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, New Ohio Review, and The Literarian. She teaches at the University of Washington—Seattle.

Tina May Hall is the author of The Physics of Imaginary Objects. She lives and teaches in upstate New York.

Lily Hoang is the author of four books. Her short novel Changing received a 2009 PEN Beyond Margins Award. She is Prose Editor for Puerto del Sol and Editor for Tarpaulin Sky. She teaches in the MFA program at New Mexico State University.

Lynn Crawford is a fiction writer and art critic living in Detroit. Books include, Fortification Resort, a series of sestinas responding to visual art, and, Simply Separate People, Two, a novel. Her new works include a new selection of art related sestinas, The Stubborn Aunt, and her latest novel, Shankus & Kitto.

Alice Mattison’s recent novel, When We Argued All Night, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her earlier novels and story collections include The Book Borrower, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, and In Case We’re Separated. She teaches fiction in the Bennington Writing Seminars.