Jessica BarksdaleJessica Barksdale’s fifteenth novel, The Play’s the Thing, and her second poetry collection, Grim Honey, are forthcoming. She is a Professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California and teaches novel writing online for UCLA Extension and in the online MFA program for Southern New Hampshire University. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she now...

Harrison BlackmanHarrison Blackman is an award-winning writer, editor, and journalist based in Reno, Nevada. An MFA candidate and writing instructor at the University of Nevada, Reno, Harrison graduated from Princeton University in 2017 with a degree in history. He specializes in writing thrilling narratives about science and architecture; he also consults on TV and film projects. His writing...

Jeff FleischerJeff Fleischer is a Chicago-based author, journalist and editor. His fiction has appeared in more than sixty publications including the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, the Saturday Evening Post, and So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. He is also the author of non-fiction books including Votes of Confidence: A Young Person's Guide to American...