Lori Barrett is a writer living in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Salon, The Wall Street Journal, Necessary Fiction, Barrelhouse, and Paper Darts. She's an assistant fiction editor at Pithead Chapel, and volunteers as a writing tutor at a local public high school.

Billy Gee is a fiction writer from Chicago who loves to ride his bike all year round and dreams of one day writing the perfect sentence, a sentence so good he can die happy. His stories have appeared in Maudlin House, Broad River Review, Gravel Magazine, and others. He is a member of the Chicago Literary Writers and an Assistant Editor at Narrative magazine.

D. A. Hosek’s fiction and poetry have been published here and there. He has an MFA in fiction from the University of Tampa. He lives and writes in Oak Park, Illinois. He spends his days as a cog in the machinery of corporate America.

Aaron Mayer Frankel is a writer, musician, artist and publisher in Chicago. His fiction has appeared in Other Voices, Reform Judaism Magazine, The Penman Review, NPR Three Minute Fiction, Alimentum, Inkwell Magazine, RFD, Mochila Review, The Rambler, and other publications.

Laura Nelson is a fiction writer and science writer living in the Chicago area. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Illinois.

Dan Portincaso is writer of short stories, flash fiction, sometimes poetry, with novels in the works. His writing has appeared in publications such as: F(r)iction, the Hoot Review, and Pank. He has been a fiction reader for PostRoad magazine and the Chicago Quarterly Review. He also served a year as Managing Editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review.