Marissa Levien earned her BFA from New York University and her MFA from Stony Brook University. Her novel The World Gives Way was a Bradbury Award Finalist and was listed as one of the Best Books of 2021 by the New York Times. Her work has been published in Los Angeles Review of Books, Catapult, and Lit Hub, among others. She lives in the Hudson Valley with a kindly journalist and their cat.

Genevieve Sly Crane is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts (B.A. English, 2010) and Stony Brook Southampton, (M.F.A. Creative Writing and Literature, 2013). Her first novel, Sorority, earned a Publisher's Weekly starred review. She is the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Award for fiction. Her 2017 story, "Endings, Bright and Ugly," was a finalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Her upcoming novel is due for publication in 2024.

Robert Lopez is the author of six books of fiction and one nonfiction, including A Better Class of People and Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature here at Stony Brook University. 

LB Thompson studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and NYU. In collaboration with visual artist Ellen Wiener, she has recently exhibited a bestiary of poems called Fibonacci Monstrosity situated in the interactive wall-sized mural Longhand Forest. Her poem Between Red and Green mediates between two of Wiener’s paintings in a limited edition artists' book. The collection Tendered Notes: Poems of Love and Money was letterpress printed by Roni Gross at the Center For Book Arts. Her poems and essays have been honored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and the Rona Jaffe Foundation.

Julie Sheehan's three poetry collections are Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise, Orient Point, and Thaw. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, most recently in Smartish Pace. She has taught at Stony Brook since 2006, and was founding director of the BFA in Creative Writing. 

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