Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (Claremont Graduate University), a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship and 2019 Pushcart Prize. Clark is the 2017-2018 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. She is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Clark is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (M.F.A) and Tennessee State University (B.A.) where she studied Africana and Women's studies. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House Online, Kenyon Review, BuzzFeed News, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, Best New Poets 2015, and elsewhere. She is the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College.

Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her first novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review, one of Marie Claire magazine’s Best Fiction by Women in 2020, and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times United We Read. Her collection of short stories Code of the West won the 2016 Willow Books Fiction Prize. She lives, teaches, and writes outside of Chicago.

Julia Fine is the author of the novels The Upstairs House, which won the 2021 Chicago Review of Books Award, and What Should Be Wild, which was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Superior First Novel Award. She teaches writing in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and children.

Rachel Vorona Cote is the author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. She writes for a variety of venues, such as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bookforum, Hazlitt, the Poetry Foundation, and Pitchfork and was previously a contributing writer at Jezebel. She also teaches a nonfiction writing course through Catapult. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland with her husband and son.

Laura Yan is a freelance writer and teacher. Her stories have appeared in over 24 publications including Wired, Vogue, GQ, The Cut, Longreads, The Verge and elsewhere, and her features often appear on best-of lists. She teaches creative non-fiction at City College of New York and online at Catapult. She has a MFA from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn and dreams about moving to a farm.