Laura Venita Green is the author of the debut novel, Sister Creatures, an Indies Introduce and Indie Next pick. She is a writer and translator with an MFA from Columbia University, where she taught undergraduate creative writing. Her fiction won the Story Foundation Prize, was a finalist for the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary…

Matthew Clark Davison is the author of the novel Doubting Thomas (Amble Press), which was hailed as a “Must-Read Books by Queer Authors” in Esquire Magazine. He is co-author, with Alice LaPlante, of The Lab, Experiments in Writing Across Genre (W.W. Norton), and is Emeritus Faculty in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

P.M. Raymond is an award-winning author from New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a 2025 Killer Shorts Screenplay and Horror2Comic Semifinalist, the Sisters in Crime 2024 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award Winner, 2024 Claymore Award Finalist, and 2024 Killer Shorts Screenplay Finalist. She was named to the 160 Black Women in Horror in 2023. Her debut interconnected…

Delaney Nolan is the author of Happy Bad (2025, Astra House), her debut novel, which received a starred review from Kirkus. Her fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Guernica, Indiana Review, Oxford American, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and has been chosen as a notable for Best American Essays. She received her MFA in fiction from the…

Addie Citchens was born in the Mississippi Delta, graduated from Jackson State University, and attended the Callaloo Writer Workshop. She has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Midnight & Indigo, The Columbia Journal, and The Oxford American. She is a 2025 O. Henry Award winner for her short story, “That Girl.” In…

Gaar Adams is the author of Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East, longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. His reportage from the Middle East and South Asia has been featured in publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Slate and Rolling Stone. He received his doctorate…

Jonathan Alexander is a writer and podcaster living in Southern California. His previous creative nonfiction includes Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 2018; Bullied: The Story of an Abuse; and Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot. His forthcoming book, out summer 2026, is DAMAGE: Notes…

Ethan Brown is an editor, investigative reporter, and author of four investigative reporting-driven books about crime and criminal justice policy: Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler, Snitch, Shake the Devil Off, and Murder in the Bayou, a New York Times bestseller. He also served as Executive…

Christopher Castellani is the author of four novels, most recently Leading Men, which is currently being adapted for film. His book of essays on narration, The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, is taught in many writing workshops. Christopher is the current Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University and a longtime member of the faculty of…

Bill Loehfelm is author of seven novels, including the critically acclaimed crime fiction series about New Orleans police officer Maureen Coughlin. Bill has lived in New Orleans for almost 30 years. He tends bar with some regularity, occasionally plays the drums, and very occasionally teaches writing. He lives in the Irish Channel with his wife,…