Lev Grossman is the author of five novels, including the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy. The Magicians books are published in 25 countries and have been praised by, among others, George R.R. Martin, Audrey Niffenegger, John Green, Joe Hill & Erin Morgenstern. An hour-long drama series based on them is currently airing on Syfy. Grossman is also Time magazine’s book critic & lead technology writer, and he has written essays & criticism for Salon, Slate, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Lingua Franca, the Week, the Village Voice and the Believer, among others. His journalism has earned him a Deadline award, and the New York Times has called him ‘‘one of this country’s smartest and most reliable critics.’’ He has made frequent appearances on NPR and at festivals, conferences & universities all over the world. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife & three children.

Sam J. Miller is a writer & a community organizer. His fiction is in Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld & The Minnesota Review, among others. He is a nominee for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. His debut novel The Art of Starving is forthcoming from HarperCollins. He lives in New York City.

Ryan Britt is the author of Luke Skywalker Can’t Read. He has written for The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Awl, VICE Motherboard, Clarkesworld Magazine, and is a consulting editor for Story Magazine. He was the staff writer for the Hugo-Award winning web magazine Tor.com, where he remains a contributor. He lives in New York City.

Lee Matthew Goldberg graduated with an MFA from the New School. His fiction has appeared in Essays & Fictions, The New Plains Review, Orion headless, Verdad Magazine, BlazeVOX, and on Amazon. His debut novel Slow Down is a neo-noir thriller published by New Pulp Press in January 2015.

Marco Rafalá is a writer and a nerd for narrative games. His short fiction has appeared in theBellevue Literary Review, and he is a contributing writer for The One Ring Roleplaying Game, an award-winning tabletop game based on the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. Marco holds an MFA in Fiction from The New School and has just completed his first novel.

Nicole Audrey Spector is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She is a weekly contributor to the New Yorker’s nightlife section, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Guernica, theLondon Times, and Salon, among other publications that are arguably more compelling, likeGrocery Headquarters and Pet Elite. Her first novel, the parody Fifty Shades of Dorian Graywas published in 2013. 

Camellia Phillips is a longtime grantwriter with social and economic justice organizations. Her fiction has appeared in CALYX Journal and Cream City Review, and her nonfiction has appeared in Voices of a New Generation: A Feminist Anthology (Allyn and Bacon). She holds an MFA from the New School and received a writing residency at Blue Mountain Center.