Debra Di Blasi is founding publisher of the Seattle-based multimedia company, Jaded Ibis Productions and its imprint Jaded Ibis Press. She is the author of six books, including The Jirí Chronicles, Drought, and Skin of the Sun. She often lectures on the intersection of narrative and technology.

Dawn Raffel is the author of a bestselling memoir, The Secret Life of Objects, two story collections—Further Adventures in the Restless Universe and In the Year of Long Division—and a novel, Carrying the Body. She is the editor of the Literarian at the Center for Fiction in New York.

Jane Rosenberg LaForge worked as a journalist for more than a decade on both coasts, before enrolling in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She now teaches college composition and writes poetry, fiction, criticism, and personal essays.

Cris Mazza's new book is a hybrid memoir titled Something Wrong With Her. Her last novel, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, will be reissued in 2013. She has fifteen other published books of fiction and nonfiction. She is director of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Anna Joy Springer is the author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love, a fabulist memoir with soundscape and images. She’s now making a book-length rebus called Thieves With Tiny Eyes. She is associate professor of Literature at UC San Diego and Director of its MFA Program in Writing.