Sam Allingham received his M.F.A. in fiction in 2013. He is the author of the short story collection The Great American Songbook (A Strange Object, 2016). His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, StoryQuarterly, Epoch, One Story, n+1, and American Short Fiction, among others. His nonfiction has appeared in The Millions, The Kenyon Review, and Full Stop, among others. He lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University and the University of the Arts.

Alyssa Songsiridej received her M.F.A. in fiction in 2013. Her debut novel, Little Rabbit, was published in May 2022 from Bloomsbury. A 5 Under 35 honoree, she is an editor at Electric Literature. Her short fiction can be found at StoryQuarterly, The Indiana Review, and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. She has had residencies at Yaddo, Ucross, VCCA, and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Philadelphia. 

Divya Victor received her M.A. in poetry in 2006; she went on to earn her Ph.D. in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of Curb (Nightboat Books, winner of PEN America Open Book Award and the Kinglsey Tufts Poetry Award); Kith (Fence Books/ Book*hug); Scheingleichheit: Drei Essays  (Merve Verlag); Natural Subjects (Trembling Pillow), Unsub (Insert Blanc), Things to Do With Your Mouth (Les Figues). Her work has been collected in numerous venues, including BOMB, the New Museum’s The Animated Reader, Crux: Journal of Conceptual Writing, The Best American Experimental Writing, POETRY, and boundary2.