Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons is an award-winning essayist, playwright, and storyteller. Earning her MFA in creative nonfiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University, she combined her love for theater and writing to create No, You Tell It!—a series dedicated to performing true-life tales with a twist.

Minna Zallman Proctor, the editor of the Literary Review, teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is the author of Do You Hear What I Hear? and Landslide (forthcoming). She translates from Italian and writes frequently about literature and photography.

Heather Lang is a poet, literary critic, and adjunct professor. A Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA graduate, she’s returned to add on a literary translation certificate. She serves as an editor with the Literary Review, and was recently interviewed by Nevada’s NPR station about her own writing.

Mike Dressel is a writer and award-winning educator. As an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York and Hudson County Community College, he teaches courses in literature and composition. He is also a coproducer of the literary series and storytelling show No, You Tell It!

Jessie Vail Aufiery is a fiction writer, poet, and translator. She is the world literature editor for the Literary Review, and has an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.