Dawn Dorland is an LA-based writer and educator, teaching fiction and nonfiction at Writing Workshops LA & the Downtown Women's Center. Dawn's work appears in GMR online, the Drum, and the GrubStreet blog. She graduated with an MFA from the University of Maryland, and her debut novel is Econoline.

Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short story collection News from Heaven and four critically acclaimed novels: Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble. Her sixth book, the novel Heat and Light, will be published in May.

Brando Skyhorse's first book, The Madonnas of Echo Park, received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His next book is a forthcoming memoir.

Jodi Angel’s collection of short stories, You Only Get Letters from Jail, was named a Best Book of 2013 by Esquire. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Tin House, One Story, Zoetrope: All Story, Electric Literature: Recommended Reading, The Offing, and Best American Mystery Stories 2014.

Teka-Lark Fleming is a journalist, satirist, and poet. She founded the Blk Grrrl Book Fair, published the MP Chronicle newspaper and is the editor of the Brickbat Revue. Her work has appeared in KFPK's FemMag, LA Weekly, Ebony, Counterpunch and Time. Her latest book is The Queen of Inglewood.