A. A. Balaskovits is a current PhD candidate at the University of Missouri and a graduate of the Bowling Green State MFA program. Her work can be found or is upcoming in Gargoyle, Monkeybicycle, Shimmer, kill author, A cappella Zoo and others. She is currently finishing a collection of fairy tales and working on a novel.

Aimee Bender is the author of four books, including The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, The Paris Review and more, as well as heard on This American Life. She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches a course on fairy tales.

Zoe F. Gilbert has had her short stories and illustrations published in various UK print anthologies, as well as on the web in Luna Station Quarterly and Halfway Down the Stairs. She is currently producing her own picture book using papercuts. She lives in London and when she is not taking a razor blade to origami paper she blogs about creativity and other things  here.

Maia Harrison's work has previously been featured in the Orlando Sentinel and Touchstone Literary Journal, where she served as Editor-in-Chief from 2009 to 2011. She has served as a contributing editor to the Barrier Islands Review, and was the recipient of the 2011 Sullivan Award for excellence in Creative Writing. She received a B.A. in English with a creative writing minor from Stetson University in May 2011, and currently works as a Learning Specialist at Daytona State College in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Cynthia Larsen lives in southern Vermont with her husband and three daughters. She won the WOW flash fiction contest and was recently chosen as a finalist for the Glass Woman Prize. Her work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Prick of the Spindle, the Legendary, Liquid Imagination, and the Binnacle.

Jason Nemec is a Ph.D. student at the University of Cincinnati. His poems and stories have been published in magazines such as Meridian, Rattle, Nimrod, and Controlled Burn, and on the web at storySouth, Verse Daily, Switchback, and Tinge. He is at work on a novel.

Steven Nordhauser is a current student at Binghamton University. He is a creative writing/psychology double major, and vice president of the school's board game club.

Stephen Ornes has written about the mathematics of pizza slicing for New Scientist, wildly tilting exoplanets for Discover, and skin electronic systems for Science News for Kids. His non-science nonfiction has appeared in the New Haven Review, and his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Arcadia and One Story. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.