Kathleen Wheaton's fiction has appeared most recently in the New England Review, Potomac Review, Narrative, and New South. She is the author of the collection, Aliens and Other Stories, and she is the president and managing editor of Washington Writers Publishing House.

Robert J. Williams, educated in the University of Georgia’s Grady Graduate School of Journalism & Mass Communications, has worked in digital marketing and web technology for over twenty years. He is the recipient of four Larry Neal Writers' Awards.

Patricia Schultheis is a lecturer in the Odyssey Program of Johns Hopkins University and the author of St. Bart’s Way and Baltimore’s Lexington Market. She has received awards from The Fitzgerald Writers’ Conference, Memoirs Ink, The American League of American Pen Women, and Winning Writers. 

David Ebenbach is the author of six books, including the new story collection The Guy We Didn’t Invite to the Orgy (winner of the Juniper Prize). He teaches creative writing at Georgetown University, and he is a pedagogical researcher at Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.

Melanie S. Hatter won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize for her debut novel, The Color of My Soul. She has a bachelor’s degree in mass media arts from Hampton University and a master’s in writing from Johns Hopkins University.