David Galef has published over a dozen books, including Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press); The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters (Penn State Press); the novels Flesh, Turning Japanese, and How to Cope with Suburban Stress (Kirkus Best 30 Books of the Year); the short-story collections Laugh Track and My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Books' Short Story Collection Award); two children's books, The Little Red Bicycle by Random House and Tracks by William Morrow Junior; Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom (Tuttle); a co-edited anthology of fiction called 20 over 40 (University Press of Mississippi); and the poetry collections Flaws and Kanji Poems (David Roberts Books). He's a professor of English and the creative writing program director at Montclair State University. His website is davidgalef.com and his twitter handle is @dgalef.

Blaise Allysen Kearsley is a writer, teacher, artist, and storyteller. She identifies as Black, Black-biracial, or Person of Color. Her writing has appeared in three anthologies including Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays About Being in The World, and her stories have been published in Catapult, Longreads, VICE, Electric Literature’s The Nervous Breakdown, Yellow Arrow Journal, and elsewhere. She teaches memoir and flash nonfiction at Blaise Writers Workshop and is also the creator, producer, and host of the long-running show How I Learned, a live storytelling / comedy / reading series. Learn how to pronounce all her names at blaiseallysenkearsley.com. Find her on Instagram and Twitter: @blaiseallysen.

Mandira Pattnaik’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, The Penn Review, Contrary Magazine, The McNeese Review, Passages North, DASH, Miracle Monocle, Timber Journal, Watershed Review, Quarter After Eight, Prime Number, and Best Small Fictions 2021, among other publications. Her work has received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook Anatomy of a Storm-Weathered Quaint Townspeople (Fahmidan Publishing). Visit her website mandirapattnaik.com. On Twitter: @MandiraPattnaik.

Christopher Notarnicola’s work has appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Bellevue Literary Review, Best American Essays, Chicago Quarterly Review, Image, River Teeth, The Southampton Review, and other publications. Find him in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and at christophernotarnicola.com.

Phil Olsen is a writer from Liverpool, UK, with a Creative Writing MA from the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing. His short fiction has been published by Ad Hoc Fiction, Cnfing, The Liminal Residency, Storgy, and Strix. First prize in the University of Liverpool Short Story Competition 2022, the Northern Short Story Festival 2017 flash slam, Writing on the Wall’s WoWFest 2016, and Book Week Scotland 2014. Commissions: “Journey Through Objects with Bedwyr Williams” (Science Museum, 2021-22) and “Weekend of Words” (Victoria Baths, 2019). He is also the fiction editor at Sabotage Reviews. Find him at polsen.co.uk or on Twitter: @Liverpolsen.

Lucy Zhang writes, codes, and watches anime. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, The Offing, Passages North, SmokeLong Quarterly, West Branch and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbooks Hollowed (Thirty West Publishing, 2022) and Absorption (Harbor Review, 2022). Find her at https://lucyzhang.tech or on Twitter @Dango_Ramen.

Angie Kang is a Chinese American artist and writer living in LA. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Believer, Catapult, The Rumpus, Narrative, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She has received support from MacDowell, Virginia Center of Creative Arts, Tin House, and other organizations. Her debut picture book, Our Lake, is forthcoming with Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in 2025. Find her at angiekang.net or on Instagram @anqiekanq.