Autumn Stephens is the author of the Wild Women book series, editor of two anthologies of women's essays, and the second-ever New York Times Modern Love columnist. A journalist, essayist, and poet, she leads workshops for cancer patients and last-minute memoirists, and teaches creative writing privately.

Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Scald. Her other titles include Blowout; Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; and Kinky. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Duhamel is a professor at FlU in Miami.

Jonah Mixon-Webster is a poet, sound artist, and educator from Flint, Michigan. He is a PhD candidate in English studies at Illinois State University. His work is featured or forthcoming in Muzzle, Kinfolks, Spoon River Poetry Review, Blueshift Journal, Assaracus, Callaloo, and Voluble.

Mg Roberts is the author of the poetry collection not so, sea. She is a multimedia artist teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Kelsey Street Press member, and a VONA/Voices Alum, and her second book Anemal Uter Meck is forthcoming.