Joanne Comito lives in Asheville, NC. She is an RN who is taking a break to homeschool her daughter and work on fiction-writing.

Robert Lopez has had fiction in dozens of print and online journals, including: BOMB, American Letters & Commentary, New Orleans Review, New England Review, Unsaid, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Nerve, 5_Trope, Elimae, DIAGRAM, Small Spiral Notebook, Smokelong Quarterly, etc. He teaches an experimental fiction workshop at The New School and is the co-editor of SleepingFish.

Cate McGowan is a Georgia native whose award-winning fiction has been featured in various publications such as Glimmer Train, Tank Magazine, Snake Nation Review, The Louisville Review, and Wordsmitten. Of the 163-odd jobs she's held, she still finds writing and teaching are the most rewarding.

Brian Reynolds lives in southern Ontario. His fiction has appeared or will be forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, edifice WRECKED, FRiGG, Pindeldyboz, Hiss Quarterly, Event and The New Quarterly.

For the upcoming academic year, Bruce Holland Rogers is relocating from Eugene, Oregon, to London, England. He is a member of the permanent faculty for the Whidbey Writers Workshop low-residency MFA. His most recent collection is The Keyhole Opera from Wheatland Press.

Born to the mountain desert of southwest Colorado, Kelly Spitzer now lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in NOO Journal, Outsider Ink, Orchard Press Mysteries, The Green Tricycle, Monkeybicycle, and other publications.