Dagmar Van Engen is an honors faculty fellow and director of the Barrett Writing Center. His research and teaching explore speculative fiction, multiethnic American literatures, and composition pedagogy.

Susan Rigetti is the editor of Future Tense and a Professor of Practice at ASU.

PhD Candidate, SFIS; Research Associate, CSI, Faculty Associate, Fulton Schools of Engineering. Bestselling author of the Simulation Hypothesis.

Levin is a theoretical physicist and fiction author. He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics. He is interested in cosmology, black holes, quantum gravity, and theology. He writes science and philosophical fiction.