Joe Oestreich is the author of Partisans, Lines of Scrimmage, and Hitless Wonder. His work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, the Normal School, Esquire, and many other magazines and journals. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University, where he directs the MA in writing program.

Erica Dawson is the author of two books of poetry: Big-Eyed Afraid and The Small Blades Hurt. With a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, she is assistant professor of English and writing at University of Tampa.

Caitlin Horrocks is author of This Is Not Your City plus a forthcoming novel and story collection. Her work appears in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize anthology, and others. An editor at the Kenyon Review, she teaches at Grand Valley State University.

Marcus Jackson studied poetry at NYU and as a Cave Canem fellow. His poems have appeared in such publications as the American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and the New Yorker. Author of the collection Neighborhood Register, he teaches in the MFA program at The Ohio State University.

Joey Franklin is the author of My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married, and his essays have recently appeared in Hunger Mountain, Gettysburg Review, and The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Brigham Young University.