Marcia Aldrich is the author of Girl Rearing (W.W. Norton) and is completing her follow-up collection, The Mother Bed. She is the editor of Fourth Genre.
 
Ana Marcela Fuentes is an MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her stories have been published in the Indiana Review, Storyglossia and New Writing from the Southwest. She can be reached at marcelisima at gmail dot com.

Tammy Guzman lives and writes in the flatlands of Texas. Previous works have appeared in Static Movement, Flash Me Magazine, The Green Muse and others.

Kyle Hemmings completed his MFA in creative writing and loves to cook and bake, and often burns whatever he cooks or bakes. He also loves listening to the Beach Boys sing of an endless summer. He lives and works in New Jersey.

Ladisa Quintanilla recently earned her MFA in creative writing from Naropa University.  Her short memoir of life on the island of Guam was recently published in The Square Table.  She is currently working on a collection of short stories and family memoirs.

Alissa Nutting received her MFA from the University of Alabama, where she was Editor of the Black Warrior Review. In the fall she will begin her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she is a Schaeffer Fiction Fellow. Her writing has recently appeared in journals such as Tin House, Fence, Swink, and others.