Claire Davis is the author of Season of the Snake and Winter Range, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel.  Her stories have appeared in Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares and have been selected for the Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Davis lives in Lewiston, Idaho.

Michael Kun is the author of four novels including the 2003 BookSense selection and Amazon.com "Breakout Book" The Locklear Letters and his most recent work, You Poor Monster.  A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Kun lives in Los Angeles.

Stephanie Savage's fiction has appeared in Potpourri, Jewish Currents, 3AM Magazine, News of the Brave New World, Potpourri, Devil Blossoms, PKA'S Advocate, Lite, Snicker and American Atheist. She is currently working on her second novel.  Savage has lived in LA since she was 12, she wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

Chris Iovenko has published numerous short stories in literary journals and magazines such as Open City, The American Voice, Outercast, and Farmhouse Magazine.  He has written non-fiction for The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Spin and Details Magazine.  Iovenko has worked as a writer, director and producer in feature film.  The acclaimed, award-winning dark comedy EASY SIX (Showtime 2005) marked his feature writing and directing debut.  Iovenko currently teaches the creative writing class The Art of the Page Turner for UCLA's Extension Program.  He lives in Los Angeles.