Lena Valencia's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, Epiphany, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at One Story and the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit. Her debut short story collection, Mystery Lights, was published by Tin House Books in August 2024.

Sarah Bridgins is the recipient of the 2018 Sexton Prize from Eyewear Books. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, BuzzFeed, and Bustle among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she is the co-host of the Ditmas Lit reading series.

Anne-E. Wood’s fiction has appeared in AGNI Online, Tin House, New Letters, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Cream City Review, Fourteen Hills, Fiction Attic, Other Voices, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Licking River Review, and others. She has an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University, where she received the 2006 Michael Rubin Award. She lives in New York and teaches writing at Rutgers University. Her short story collection TWO IF BY SEA won the 2006 Michael Rubin Chapbook Award.