Anna March's writing has been in The New York Times, NY Magazine, VQR, Tin House, and regularly in The Rumpus and Salon. She writes extensively on gender, sexuality, and feminism. A 2016 resident at the Millay Colony, her novel, The Diary of Suzanne Frank is forthcoming as is her essay collection.

Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer. He is an associate professor of English at Vassar College and is the author of the novel, Long Division, a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.

Benjamin Reed's work has appeared in West Branch and Seattle Review, among other places. He is an adjunct lecturer of composition and American literature at Texas State University, and the fiction editor at Arcadia magazine. His first book will be published in early 2017.

Jocelyn Bartkevicius has received the Missouri Review Essay Award, the Annie Dillard Award in Nonfiction, the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, and other awards. Her essays are in the Hudson Review, Bellingham Review, Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Waveform: 21st Century Women Essayists, and elsewhere.

Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem Fellow, graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and recipient of three Bread Loaf scholarships. He holds an MFA in poetry from Chicago State University. Keith works as a writer and game designer in Chicago.