Janice Margolis is the author of the short story collection, Termination Shocks, which won the 2018 Juniper Prize for Fiction (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019). She is also an AFI Film Finalist, has four films in development, has recently completed a play, "God's Green Earth," and has finished her first novel, World Full of Noise.
Marie-Helene Bertino is a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of three novels, Beautyland, Parakeet and 2AM at the Cat's Pajamas, and one short story collection, Safe as Houses. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Prize for her short stories.
Allegra Hyde is the author of the novel Eleutheria and the story collection Of This New World, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, The Best Small Fictions, The Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere.