Janice Margolis is a Los Angeles-based writer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She is the author of the short story collection, Termination Shocks, which won the 2018 Juniper Prize for Fiction (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), and has finished her first novel, World Full of Noise.
Maria Lioutaia was born in Moscow, and now lives and writes in Toronto. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Conjunctions, Master’s Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading.
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 story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times. Her debut novel Eleutheria was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize and her first story collection Of This New World won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. She currently teaches at Smith College.