Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, Vuong is also the author of the poetry collections Time is a Mother, a finalist for the Griffin prize, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, Vuong's honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. He splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts, and New York City, where he serves as a Professor in Modern Poetry and Poetics in the MFA Program at NYU.

For more than a decade, Sarah Seltzer has been a feminist journalist and cultural critic. Her lively writing for publications including The New York Times, TIME, Jezebel, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, and many other places has shaped the discourse on subjects ranging from Hollywood casting, to abortion rights, to Jane Austen and beyond. A native and lifelong New Yorker, Sarah is currently the Executive Editor at Lilith Magazine. Her debut novel The Singer Sisters is out with MacMillan this month.

Sara Eddy is the author of Ordinary Fissures (released by Kelsay Books in May 2024) and two chapbooks, Tell the Bees: Poem About Bees & Beekeeping  (A3 Press, 2019), and Full Mouth: Poems about Food (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Threepenny Review, Baltimore Review, SWWIM, Raleigh Review, and Spank the Carp. Assistant Director of the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, Sara lives in a house built by Emily Dickinson’s cousin, with her youngest adult child, a white dog named Sully, and a black cat named Luna.