Erin Stalcup is the author of the collection And Yet it Moves, and her stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Sun, and elsewhere. She taught in community colleges, universities, and prisons in New York, North Carolina, and Texas, and now teaches at her alma mater in her hometown in Arizona. Erin coedits Waxwing.

Robin Black is the author of three books, the story collection If I Loved you, I Would Tell You This, the novel Life Drawing, and, most recently, Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide. She teaches in the Rutgers-Camden MFA Program.

Lori Ostlund’s story collection The Bigness of the World received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. Her second book, a novel, is entitled After the Parade and was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Melissa Yancy is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, Prairie Schooner, Zyzzyva, the Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Her story collection Dog Years was winner of the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and she is the recipient of a 2016 NEA Literature Fellowship.