Joseph Scapellato earned his MFA in fiction at New Mexico State University. His story collection, Big Lonesome, and his novel, The Made-Up Man, are forthcoming. Joseph is a visiting assistant professor of English at Bucknell University.

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.

Jameelah Lang is an assistant professor of English at Franklin College. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review and Pleiades, and she has received awards from Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers' Conference, VCCA, and Hub City Writers Project.

Hasanthika Sirisena's stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Epoch, StoryQuarterly, Narrative, and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award and the 2015 Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her short story collection is The Other One.

Dan Chelotti is the author of X and two chapbooks, The Eights and Compost. He is an associate professor of English at Elms College, where he directs programs at The Blue House: A Center for Writers.