Alison Murphy is the director of programs and marketing at GrubStreet, the nation's leading independent creative writing center. Her writing can be found in Men's Journal, Psychology Today, and WBUR's Cognoscenti, among other publications. She is at work on her first novel.

Jonathan Escoffery is an instructor and the program and advocacy manager at GrubStreet. He earned his MFA in fiction from the University of Minnesota. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and an AWP Intro Award, and has appeared in Salt Hill Journal, the Caribbean Writer, and elsewhere.

Matthew Salesses's books include The Hundred-Year Flood; I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying; The Murder of the Doppelgänger (forthcoming); and Own Story: Essays (forthcoming). He has written for The New York Times, NPR, Salon, the Millions, and others. He's a PhD candidate at the University of Houston.

Eson Kim’s stories have appeared in Calyx Journal and The Massachusetts Review, among other publications. She is the recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship and the David B. Saunders Award. She is currently a GrubStreet instructor and Youth Program Fellow.

Dariel Suarez is the author of the chapbook In The Land of Tropical Martyrs. He holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in several national literary magazine and journals, and he's currently a fiction instructor at GrubStreet.