Greg Harris was born in Boston and received his MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon State University. He has taught writing at Harvard University since 2003, and been editor in chief of Pangyrus Literary Magazine since founding it in 2014. He was founding director of Harvard LitFest. Greg has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Bulgaria and Iceland, and is currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Communication. His audio recording “Champion of Hot Peppers” won a 2001 National Parenting Publications Association Gold Medal for storytelling. His translation of Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s novel Jazz, Perfume, and the Incident was published as part of the Modern Library of Indonesia (2012). He has published in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere.

Selah Tay-Song teaches English at Northern Michigan University, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. She has worked as the Associate Fiction Editor and Managing Editor for Passages North. Her fiction and nonfiction appears in The Vagabond's Verse, Northern Magazine, and MELUS (forthcoming). When she’s not editing, teaching and writing, Selah is either swimming in the frigid waters of Lake Superior, or shoveling snow.

Virginia Pye is the author of four award-winning books of fiction, including two post-colonial historical novels set in China, River of Dust and Dreams of the Red Phoenix, and the short story collection, Shelf Life of Happiness. Her most recent novel, The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann, is a love story to writers and readers set in Gilded Age Boston. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, Publisher’s Weekly, Writer’s Digest and elsewhere. She has taught writing at NYU and Penn and currently serves on the boards of the Women’s National Book Association, Boston Chapter and of History Cambridge. Please visit her at: www.virginiapye.com.

Cheryl Clark Vermeulen is an Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her poems and translations have appeared in Caketrain, Jubilat, Third Coast, TWO LINES Online, DIAGRAM, EOAGH, Split Rock Review, Inertia Magazine, admit2, Carve [poems], Dispatx, Propeller Quarterly, Thermos blog, and eXchanges, as well as the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. She is the author of the chapbook Dead-Eye Spring (Cy Gist Press) and a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship. She received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, after working for a decade in non-profit organizations. Raised in a suburb south of Chicago, she has lived in Boston since 1998.

Deborah Norkin is a chef, editor, writer and teacher. Her features, essays and fiction have appeared in magazines, literary journals, and newspapers. She is the President of the Boston Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association. She holds a BS in Nutrition from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Professional Chef’s Diploma from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, and an MBA in Marketing from Rutgers Business School. Deborah doesn’t only write about food, but she will always write about food.

Christelle Saintis-Miller has over a decade of experience in education. She has taught all ages, from nursery schoolers to adults, in the US as well as abroad in both Thailand and Honduras. She currently works full time as a Senior Program Manager for a global education program at a think tank in Washington, DC where she enjoys impacting education beyond the walls of a classroom (though she does miss connecting with students!). She is an avid reader and dabbles in writing when inspiration strikes.

Aime Card is author of And Beneath it all Was Love, a memoir about her experience with breast cancer. Her current work in progress is an historical nonfiction narrative about a women's track team in 1960 and their journey to the Olympics from her hometown in Nashville. On the best days you can find her walking a beach on the North Shore of Boston with her sidekicks, Serendipity and Moose, baking with her daughter, listening to her son bang on the drums, or with a glass of wine in her hand by the firepit with her husband.

Darya (Dasha) is a journalism and psychology graduate. In her spare time, she likes to read, customize clothes, and write short stories. She has lived in Bulgaria and Nantucket, but calls Kazakhstan her home.