Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novel The Welsh Girl, and the story collections The Ugliest House in the World and Equal Love. His work has appeared in Harper's, the Atlantic, Granta, and The Paris Review, and has been selected for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Award and Best American Short Stories.

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and The New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Roxana Robinson has written nine books. Her novel Sparta won the James Webb and MWPA Fiction Awards and was a Dublin Impac finalist. Robinson's work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Harper's, and elsewhere. She is an NEA and Guggenheim Fellow, and president of the Authors Guild.