Shara Lessley is a writer and teacher. The author of Two-Headed Nightingale and The Explosive Expert's Wife (forthcoming 2018), she is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She currently serves as Operations Director for Oxford Writers' House.

Bruce Snider is a writer and teacher. He is the author of two poetry collections, Paradise, Indiana, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, and The Year We Studied Women,winner of Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco.