Katie Cortese is the author of the flash fiction collection Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Day One, and elsewhere. She teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University, and she is the fiction editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.

Art Taylor is the author of On the Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories, named a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. His short fiction has won two Agatha Awards, an Anthony, a Macavity, and three consecutive Derringer Awards. He teaches at George Mason University.

Idra Novey is the author of the novel Ways to Disappear, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her poetry collection Exit, Civilian was selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series. Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H.

Matt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indies Choice Adult Debut Book of the Year Honor Recipient. He teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Arizona State University.

Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novels Sons & Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion. She has received fellowships from the NEA, Ucross, Yaddo, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and more. She has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Slate, Elle, Spin, and more.