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...

Lorena Ortiz Lorena Ortiz was born and raised by Mexican immigrant parents in the Bay Area of California. She adores west coast sunsets and 70 degree weather year-round. That is why every winter at her current home in Washington, D.C., she grumbles about the weather the moment it falls below 60 degrees. During the day she is a girl who codes health and claims data. During the early morning,...

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...