Katherine Gehan earned her MFA in fiction from Emerson College and her BA in English from Haverford College. She has played the flute at Carnegie Hall, lived in cities as varied as Vienna and Indianapolis (God help her), climbed mountains and raced in triathlons, given IQ tests to over 200 twins, and worked in higher educational publishing for nearly ten years. Currently she spends too much of her time blogging about how to balance writing with motherhood, among other things.

Want Chyi fell in love with the written word when her older sister read her A Wrinkle in Time when she sick, doing all the voices. She received her MFA in fiction from Arizona State University, and has taught composition and creative writing in Indiana, Arizona, Illinois, and Singapore. In the spring of 2008, her students nominated her for a teaching award. They continue to send her philosophical musings, to which she eagerly replies. In the summer of 2008, she received an international teaching fellowship, and has been the international fiction editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review. She currently resides in Chicago, IL, where she mentors adolescents in professional and creative writing. She is at work on her first novel, and her favorite character from A Wrinkle in Time is still Charles Wallace.

Cheri Johnson was raised in Lake of the Woods County in northern Minnesota, and has since lived in Virginia, Texas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Minneapolis. She studied English and writing at Augsburg College, Hollins University, and the University of Minnesota, and her fiction, poetry, and plays have been published in magazines such as Phantasmagoria, The Rio Grande Review, Glimmer Train Stories, New South, Cerise Press, The Emprise Review, and Puerto Del Sol. Her reviews on contemporary poets have been included in The Hollins Critic and Pleiades, and in summer 2009 her first chapbook of poems, entitled Fun & Games, was released by Finishing Line Press. 
In 2004-2005, Cheri was a Loft Mentor Series Fellow at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. She has won the Glimmer Train StoriesFiction Open, The Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature at Yaddo, a 2005 Bush Artist Fellowship, and a 2007 Loft-McKnight Fellowship. In 2007-2008, she was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Currently she is working on a novel that retells the story of Rosemary’s Baby, as well as, in collaboration with the composer Aaron Gabriel, an opera about Heloise and Abelard. 

Steven Ramirez received his MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He has studied fiction under T.C. Boyle, Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, and Ethan Canin, among others. Steven's fiction has most recently appeared in the Blue Mesa Review, Stumble Magazine, Midway Journal, the North American Review, and the Indiana Review. He is the recipient of the Blue Mesa Review Short Fiction Award as well as the Prairie Lights-Jack Legget Award for Short Fiction, judged by Yiyun Li. Originally from El Paso, Texas, Steven currently teachers creative writing and literature in Chicago. He is working to complete his first novel, and you can see him haunting the background this fall on NBC's The Playboy Club.  

Kseniya Melnik was born in Magadan, Russian Far East, and immigrated to Alaska in '98, at the age of 15.  She received her MFA from New York University in 2010 and has taught creative writing there as an adjunct professor, and online at Our Stories Literary Journal.  Her book reviews have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail and brooklynrail.org.  Recently selected as one of Granta’s New Voices with her story “The Witch,” she is at work on a collection of linked stories and a novel. 

Joseph Nalbone is from rural northeastern  Pennsylvania, where he grew up exploring  the little piece of the Appalacian mountains outside his family’s back door. He eventually went off to study computer science and psychology and worked at the local Knight-Ridder owned newspaper as a systems administrator. Remarkably, working closely with writers and editors left him with a good impression of the field.  He currently works as an Instructional Designer at Wilkes University. He earned his M.A. in Creative Writing from Wilkes with a collection of science fiction stories.  His MFA academic paper looked at how  the psychology of mindfulness provides a new perspective on a writer’s goal, specifically that state John Gardner described as the “vivid and continuous dream.”

CJ Moutinho has over 10 years of application developer experience across multuple platforms. He holds a computer science degree from Hobart College and more work experience than you can shake a stick at. Alexis E Santí, the founder of Our Stories and CJ's good friend has often said, "The only man that I know can figure anything out techologically again and again is CJ. He is, by all accounts a damn genius." CJ is co-owner and founder of MoBa Interactive an application development company that would be happy to take your idea and turn it into an app.