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Rebekah Bergman is a fiction writer living in Rhode Island. Her stories have been published in Tin House Online, Hobart, Joyland, and other journals. Bergman was a 2018 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a winner of The Masters Review Anthology Prize, judged by Rebecca Makkai. She has earned fellowships from Art Farm, Brown University, and Tent Creative Writing. She is a contributing editor of NOON.

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in southern California.

Brontez Purnell is an Oakland-based writer, musician, dancer, and director. He is the author of several books, including 100 Boyfriends (2021), and the zine Fag School. He is also the front man for the punk band The Younger Lovers and the founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.

Sarah Gerard is the author of three books. Her essay collection Sunshine State was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her novel Binary Star was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was a best-book-of-the-year at NPR, Vanity Fair, and Buzzfeed. Her novel True Love was a Best Book of 2020 at Glamour and Bustle, and winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award. Her short stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, The Baffler, The Believer, Vice, Electric Literature, and many others. Her paper collages have appeared in Hazlitt, BOMB Magazine, The Creative Independent, Epiphany Magazine, No Tokens Journal, and the Blue Earth Review. Recycle, a co-authored book of collages and text, was published by Pacific in 2018.

Yuri Herrera is a Mexican author and political scientist. He has written several short novels, four of which have been translated into English: A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire (El incendio de la mina El Bordo), Transmigration of Bodies (Las transmigración de los Cuerpos), Signs Preceding the End of the World (Señales que precederán al fin del mundo) and Kingdom Cons (Trabajos del Reino). His debut novel, Kingdom Cons, won the 2003 Premio Binacional de Novela/Border of Words. Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, he is currently teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book Barn 8 was named a best book of 2020 by NPR, Slate, Austin Chronicle, and Literary Hub. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. An advocate of prison reform, Unferth founded and runs the Pen City Writers, a creative-writing certificate program at a maximum security prison in southern Texas.

Patrick Cottrell was born in Korea and raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. His work has appeared in Guernica, BOMB, and Gulf Coast, among other publications. Sorry To Disrupt the Peace, Cottrell’s first novel, was long-listed for the Times Literary Supplement’s Republic of Consciousness Prize, and was the winner of the Best First Book – Fiction 2017 National Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Barnes & Noble’s 2017 Discover Award for Fiction. Cottrell is the recipient of a 2018 Whiting Award and teaches at the University of Denver.

Samantha Hunt is the author of The Dark Dark: Stories and three novels. Her first novel, The Seas, earned her selection as one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35. Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story, was an IndieNext Pick. The Invention of Everything Else, which is about the life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, was a finalist for the Orange Prize and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. The Dark Dark was a best book of the year at NPR and Vogue, as well as a winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, Tin House, A Public Space, and many others. She lives in upstate New York.

Diane Williams is the author of nine books of fiction, including her latest book, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams. Her tenth volume of short fiction How High? - That High will be published in October 2021. She is also the founder and editor of the distinguished literary annual NOON. She lives in New York City.

Vi Khi Nao’s work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration. She is the author of the novel Fish in Exile, the story collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize) and of four poetry collections: Human Tetris, Sheep Machine, Umbilical Hospital, and The Old Philosopher (winner of the 2014 Nightboat Prize). She was the fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. Her poetry collection, A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line, and her short stories collection, The Vegas Dilemma, are forthcoming from 11:11 Press Summer and Fall 2021 respectively.