Lilly Dancyger is the author of Negative Space(2021), a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn It Down (2019), a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women's anger. She is currently at work on First Love, a collection of essays about the power and complexity of female friendship, forthcoming from The Dial Press. Lilly's writing has been published by Guernica, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Longreads, The Washington Post, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in New York City, and you can find her on Twitter at @lillydancyger. 

Ladee Hubbard is the author of two novels: The Talented Ribkins which received the 2017 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and The Rib King, which was named one of the most important books of 2021 by Time Magazine.  The Last Suspicious Holdout, her collection of short stories, was published in 2022. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Award, The Berlin Prize and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and has also received fellowships from Hedgebrook, MacDowell and the Sacatar Foundation, among other organizations. She received a BA in English from Princeton University, a MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Wisconsin, Madison and a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She currently lives in New Orleans. 

Frederic Tuten grew up in the Bronx and later lived in Latin and South America and Paris. He wrote about Brazilian CinemaNovo and taught film and literature at the University of Paris 8.

He has written about art, literature and film in ArtForum, The New York Times, Vogue; was an actor in an Alain Resnais movie; taught with Paul Bowles in Morocco; co-wrote the cult-classic Possession, and along the way, earned three Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry award, a PhD in literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He is the author of five novels (The Adventures of Mao on the Long March; Tintin in the New World; Tallien: A Brief Romance; Van Gogh’s Bad Café; The Green Hour), a memoir (My Young Life) and a book of inter-related short stories: Self Portraits. In 2022, he released two books: a collection of short stories, The Bar at Twilight, and On a Terrace in Tangier, a book of forty drawings and stories.