Joey Franklin is the author of My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married, and his essays have recently appeared in Hunger Mountain, Gettysburg Review, and The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction. He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Brigham Young University.

Elena Passarello is the author of Let Me Clear My Throat, a collection of essays. Her essays were recently published in the anthologies Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong and After Mnotaigne. A recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award for nonfiction, Elena teaches at Oregon State University.

Michael Downs is the author of The Greatest Show: Stories, and House of Good Hope, which won the SB Literary Nonfiction Prize. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Maryland State Arts Council. He teaches creative writing at Towson University.

Inara Verzemnieks is a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program. Before receiving her MFA, she worked for thirteen years as a newspaper journalist. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, she is also the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award.