Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, a New York Times Editors' Choice; a Southern Living Best Book of 2018; an Amazon Editors' Best Book of 2018; a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick; a New York Post Most Unforgettable Book of 2018.

Other writing can be found in Outside online, The New York Times, Glamour, The Believer, LitHub, Creative Nonfiction, and more. Raised outside San Francisco, Tessa has received awards and fellowships from Tin House, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, is a former professor and has taught in jails and prisons for five years.

She currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, and derpy dog, where she's at work on her next book, a novel, which will be published by FSG in early 2024.

Ellen O’Connell Whittet teaches in the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara. Her memoir, What You Become in Flight (Melville House, 2020) was named a most-anticipated book by Refinery 29 and Chicago Review. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Ellen recently finished a novel, thanks to a fellowship from Writers’ Workshops in Greece.

She has written for Time, Paris Review, Buzzfeed, Vulture, The Atlantic, New York City Ballet, Allure, Teen Vogue, The Rumpus, Lenny Letter, Bustle, Catapult, Literary Hub, Salon, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, where she won the Virginia Faulkner Award, Redivider, The Nashville Review, the Harper Perennial Anthology The Moment (2012), and on the Ploughshares Blog. 

She lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Barbara, CA. You can follow @oconnellwhittet on Twitter or Instagram.

Annie Hartnett is the author of novels Rabbit Cake (Tin House Books, 2017) and Unlikely Animals (Ballantine/Random House, 2022). Unlikely Animals was listed as one of the best books of 2022 by The Washington Post and BookRiot, and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.

Rabbit Cake was listed as one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2017, was a finalist for the New England Book Award, and was long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.

Annie has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. She works as a freelance editor, and she also draws cartoons.

She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog.