Namrata Poddar holds a PhD in French from University of Pennsylvania, and she was UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Faculty in Transnational Cultures. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Bennington College and English department faculty at UCLA. Her critical and creative work have been published worldwide.

Sean Gandert’s work has been published in The Columbia Journalism Review, Solstice, New Mexico Magazine, and elsewhere. He graduated from Yale University, where he edited The Yale Record, with a BA in English and Film Studies and he is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at Bennington College.

Danuta Hinc is a lecturer at University of Maryland where she teaches writing. She is the recipient of the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction from Bennington College where she is pursuing her MFA in fiction. Hinc is the author of the novel To Kill the Other.

Morgan Jerkins is a freelance writer and novelist from New Jersey. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, Salon, the Toast, Quartz, Book Riot, and Talking Points Memo, among others. She's the blog editor for Side B Magazine and an MFA candidate at Bennington.

JoAnne Ruvoli is an assistant professor of English at Ball State University. Previously a Mellon postdoc and visiting assistant professor at UCLA, she earned her PhD at UIC in multiethnic American literature. She has published on literature and film, and edited at Other Voices fiction magazine and Voices in Italian Americana.