Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic. Her previous book, My Lesbian Husband, won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. She’s a member of the creative writing faculty of the English Department and MA in Writing and Publishing Program of DePaul University in Chicago.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and In Thailand It is Night. His work has appeared in Brevity, the Sun, and North American Review. He teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida and he is the editor of Sweet: A Literary Confection.

Dinah Lenney wrote Bigger than Life: A Murder, A Memoir and co-authored Acting for Young Actors. She teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainier Writing Workshop, and the MPW Program at USC. Her new memoir, The Object Parade, will be published in 2014.

Judith Kitchen is the author of three books of essays, a novel, and a book of poetry. She has edited three anthologies of short nonfiction for W. W. Norton. She is co-director of Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University low-residency MFA program.

Paul Lisicky