

John Edgar Wideman is the winner of the 2000 O. Henry Award, the first two time recipient of the International PEN/Faulkner Award, and recipient of aMacArthur genius grant. He is the author of ten novels, five story collections, and three memoirs.
Alicia A. Beale is a writer, and also perhaps by chance, a nice woman.
Will Dowd grew up in Braintree, MA, attended Boston College as an undergraduate and received a Masters of Science from MIT. His science essays have appeared in Scope and Skeptic magazine. In 2006 he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He is a current Jacob K. Javits Fellow.
Ishion Hutchinson's work has appeared in L.A. Times Review and the Jamaica Observer. A Derek Walcott Scholarship recipient, he is in the final semester of NYU creative writing program.
Carrie Martens likes fairy tale endings.