Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly Online, and the anthology True Crime. She has received a Rona Jaffe Award and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She lives in Boston and teaches at Grub Street and Harvard.

Nicholas Boggs is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of English at NYU. His writing has appeared in PANK, Chelsea Station, Mary Literary, James Baldwin Now, Callaloo, and is forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin and Best Gay Stories 2013.

Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of Little Murders Everywhere, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, she is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and co-founder and editor of Memorious.org.

Courtney Maum is the humor columnist behind the "Celebrity Book Review" series on Electric Literature and a satirical advice columnist for Tin House. Her debut novel, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You is forthcoming in the summer of 2014. courtneymaum.tumblr.com @cmaum

Justin St. Germain is the author of the memoir Son of a Gun. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He is the Joseph M. Russo Professor at the University of New Mexico.