Steven Church is the author of The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record, Theoretical Killings: Essays and Accidents, The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst, Ultrasonic: Soundings, and One with the Tiger. A founding editor of the Normal School, he teaches in the MFA at Fresno State.

Jericho Parms is the author of Lost Wax. Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, the Normal School, Hotel Amerika, Brevity, and elsewhere. She is the assistant director of the MFA in writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches at Champlain College.

Jaclyn Moyer is a writer based in Northern California. Her essays have appeared in the Normal School, December, Salon, High Country News, Hippocampus, and other journals. She was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, and she is currently at work on her first book of nonfiction.

Sarah Minor is the author of The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated, a digital chapbook. She runs a series on visual essays at Essay Daily and teaches as a doctoral candidate in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. Her recent work appears at the Normal School, Passages North, and Territory.

Matt Komatsu is a half-Japanese writer, currently serving veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and MFA candidate in the University of Alaska-Anchorage's creative writing (nonfiction) program.