Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes, and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her work has appeared in Granta, Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, and The Paris Review.

Erik Anderson is the author of four books of nonfiction: The Poetics of Trespass, Estranger, Flutter Point: Essays, and Bird (Bloomsbury/Object Lessons, 2020). He teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College, where from 2014-2019 he directed the annual Emerging Writers Festival.