Tracy O'Neill is the author of the memoir Woman of Interest. Her novels include  The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015; and Quotients, a New York Times New & Noteworthy Book, TOR Editor's Choice, & Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020.  She is a 2025 Civitella Ranieri Fellow. In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, LitHub, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Believer, The Literarian, The Austin Chronicle, New World Writing, The Baffler, Narrative, 4Columns, Scoundrel Time, Guernica, Bookforum, Electric Literature, Grantland, Vice, The Guardian, VQR, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Catapult. She holds an MFA from the City College of New York; and an MA, an MPhil, and a PhD from Columbia University. She teaches at Vassar College.

Dave Moloney’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Barker House, exposes the high-stress, high-stakes work environment of the U.S. criminal justice system. He received a BA in English and creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MFA from Southern New Hampshire’s Mountainview low-residency program, where he won the Lynn Safford Memorial Prize and now teaches. His writing has appeared in The Yale Review, Guernica, The Common, Salamander, Lit Hub, and GEN."DESIGN DIRECTOR

Katherine Towler is the author of the novels Snow Island, Evening Ferry, and Island Light, a trilogy set on a fictional New England island, and the memoir The Penny Poet of Portsmouth, chosen as a Best Book of the Year by Entropy, Longreads, and Book Riot. She is also co-editor with Ilya Kaminsky of A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith. She has published her work in Ploughshares, The Sun, Agni, and Poetry International. She taught in the Mountainview MFA Program from 2006 to 2023 and is currently working on a novel.