Patricia Colleen Murphy is the winner of the 2019 Press 53 Poetry Prize for Bully Love, and the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award for Hemming Flames. She founded Superstition Review and teaches at Arizona State University.

A graduate of ASU’s MFA in creative writing program, Laura Cruser teaches composition, fiction, and business writing at ASU. Cruser's writing has appeared in Arts & Letters, The Greensboro Review, and other publications.

Eshleman has taught at ASU since 1994 in the areas of Art History, English, Liberal Studies,and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research and teaching interests include sacred place and pilgrimage, and encounter and hybridity.

Ison is the author of the novels "At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf," "The List," "A Child out of Alcatraz," and "Rockaway"; "Ball," a short story collection, and the essays "Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies."

Elizabeth Sheets is a an Editor Associate for Knowledge Enterprise’s Research Technology Office at Arizona State University. There she edits journal manuscripts and grant proposals for ASU faculty and research staff.

Fore teaches composition in the Department of English.

Jenny Irish is the author of the collections Common Ancestor, I Am Faithful, and Tooth Box.

Michael Holladay is a fiction writer who received his MFA in Creative Writing from ASU. He is currently an Instructor in the English Department where had taught a variety of writing classes.

Elizabeth Hamm enjoys her students, reading, writing, knitting, and calligraphy.

Warren Glynn is an instructor at Arizona State University.