Robert Marshall’s book A Separate Reality (Carroll & Graf, 2006) was a Lambda Award Nominee for Debut Fiction. He is a novelist and visual artist living in New York City.

Michael Wurster is the author of three books of poetry: The Cruelty of the Desert (Cottage Wordsmiths, 1989); The Snake Charmer's Daughter (ELEMENOPE, 2000); and The British Detective (Main Street Rag Press, 2009).

Anahita Firouz is the author of In the Walled Garden (Little Brown). She has taught in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of English and is a founding member of the Pittsburgh Middle East Institute.

Afaa Michael Weaver’s book, The Plum Flower Dance (University of Pittsburgh Press) won the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. He has published nine other books of poetry including My Father's Geography and Timber and Prayer

Kathleen George is the author of the novels The Odds, Taken, Fallen, and Afterimage and of a short story collection, The Man in the Buick. She is a professor of theatre at the University of Pittsburgh.

Nikki Allen is the author of 12 chapbooks, and has published work with The Incredibly Thin Collective, The New Yinzer, Encyclopedia Destructica and various poetry slam anthologies. She is editing a sex anthology called The Living Room Handjob.

Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W.W. Norton 2007) and the short story “Five Serrated Dreams” published by AGNI online.

James Allen Hall is the author of Now You’re the Enemy (University of Arkansas Press, 2008) and is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. He teaches Creative Writing at the State University of New York Potsdamn.

Sherrie Flick is the author of Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press). A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, her work has been published in places including Norton’s anthology Flash Fiction Forward.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of ]Open Interval[, the 2009 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, both published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.