Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden, Mixology, and The Big Smoke, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, Map to the Stars, is forthcoming in March 2017. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Laura Minor is the recipient of the 2016 Emerging Writers Spotlight Award at Florida State University, chosen by D.A. Powell. As a singer-songwriter, she just completed a third record, and she is finishing her debut book of poems as a doctoral candidate at FSU.

Jillian Weise is the author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex, The Colony, and The Book of Goodbyes. Recent work appears in Granta, the New Republic, and Tin House. She teaches at Clemson University.

Erin Belieu is the author of four poetry collections, including Slant Six, chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2014. Belieu directs Florida State University's creative writing program.

Robert Lopez is the author of three novels, Part of the World, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, and All Back Full, and two story collections, Asunder and Good People. He teaches at Pratt Institute, The New School, Columbia University, and Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College.