Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU's MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the Sewanee Review and Granta. He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, his debut short story collection composed of eight narratives about residents of a fictional building in Harlem, was published by Scribner in August 2022.

Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), recipient of the 2016 Binghamton University/John Gardner Fiction Award; The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award for novella and finalist for a 2018 Lambda Literary Award; and The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc, 2019), a series of queer retellings of the Hansel and Gretel narrative that span a millennium told in 75-year increments that correspond with Earth's visits by Halley's Comet. Recent fiction can be found in Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Kenyon Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, and essays in Passages North, Copper Nickel, Huffington Post, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Her work has been listed as notable in the Best American Essays2016 and the 2019 Pushcart Prize Anthology. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient in Prose and winner of the 2022 Bard Fiction Prize, she is an assistant professor at the University of Utah and the associate fiction editor of West Branch literary journal.