Michelle Herman's most recent books are the novel Devotion, Like a Song: Essays, and A Girl's Guide to Life. She is also the author of two other essay collections, two earlier novels, and a novella collection. She teaches in Ohio State's MFA program and is at work on a new novel.

Kathryn Rhett is the author of Souvenir, an essay collection, and Near Breathing, a memoir. She is the editor of the anthology Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis. She teaches at Gettysburg College, and in the low-residency MFA programs at Queens University of Charlotte and Cedar Crest College.

Cade Leebron is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at The Ohio State University, where she also participates in disability studies and disability activism events. She serves as online & art editor at the Journal. Her nonfiction and poetry have appeared in several literary magazines.

Meghan Daum is the author of four books, most recently The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion. She is also the editor of Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids.

Maggie Smith is the author of the forthcoming Weep Up; The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, winner of the Dorset Prize; Lamp of the Body, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award; and three chapbooks, the latest of which is Disasterology. A 2011 NEA Fellow, she works as a freelance writer and editor.