Gannon Daniels’s poetry has been seen in several publications including California Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Earth’s Daughters, RATTLE, Sanskrit, Whistling Shade and Evening Street Press. Her book, The Occupying Water was published by Galt Art House in 2001. Two of her plays were commissioned by the Bilingual Foundation of Arts and toured the middle schools here in Los Angeles. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Theater/Oral Interpretation from Eastern Michigan University, a master’s degree in Writing from University of Southern California and a master’s degree in Education/Reading from California State University, Los Angeles. She has studied writing privately with Claudette Sutherland, Holly Prado, Arthur Vogelsang, Marvin Bell, and Laurel Ann Bogen. She teaches at Glendale College and East LA College and also founded Paper Pencil, a creative writing workshop for both adults and teens.

Deirdre Mendoza’s feature writing and essays have been published in Ms. magazine, The L.A. Times, The Miami New Times, L.A. Weekly, California Federation of Teachers, WWD, and InStyle. She holds an M.F.A. from Antioch University, L.A. and a post-grad certificate from UCLA's school of Theatre Film and Television. She teaches creative writing at Glendale Community College. 

Angela Morales, a graduate of the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program, is the author of The Girls in My Town, a collection of personal essays. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays 2013, Harvard Review, The Southern Review, The Southwest Review, and other journals. She is the winner of the River Teeth Book Prize, 2014, and has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell Colony. Her book is the 2017 winner of the River Teeth Book Prize and the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She has taught English at Merced College and Glendale College with over twenty years teaching experience. Currently she is working on her second book, a collection of essays about traveling solo.

 Joanna Parypinski holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Chapman University and has published more than twenty short stories and several novels. Her fiction has appeared in Fireside Quarterly, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, Vastarien, Nightscript, Haunted Nights (ed. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton), and Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. She sometimes publishes under the name Jo Kaplan, which is the moniker she used for her gothic novel, It Will Just Be Us (Crooked Lane 2020). She teaches composition and creative writing at Glendale Community College.

Amarnath Ravva holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. from CalArts, where he was awarded an interdisciplinary grant to help support his documentary work in South India. His first book, American Canyon (Kaya Press), was a finalist for the PEN Center USA literary award in creative nonfiction in 2015. American Canyon combines documentary footage and still photos to supplement prose that is at once memoir and meditation. In addition to his writing practice, he has helped run and curate events for the past 15 years at Betalevel, a venue for social experimentation and hands-on culture located in Los Angeles’ Chinatown.

Kate Martin Rowe holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from California State University Northridge and an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, fugue, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Brevity, Hotel Amerika, Askew, Zyzzyva, VOLT, The Denver Quarterly, Angel City Review, Chaparral, Requited, and The Beloit Poetry Journal. She has taught writing at LA City College and Cal State Northridge, and currently teaches at Glendale Community College. She curates the annual GCC Student Reading Series at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park.

Michael Shilf is a graduate of Marquette University (B.A. in Communications: Broadcasting & English Lit. double major) and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts (M.F.A. in Screenwriting). Schilf is a Professor of English and Media Arts, with nearly twenty years of experience teaching composition, argumentation, literature, screenwriting, advanced screenwriting, and motion picture film analysis. In 2010, Schilf co-founded The Script Lab, a screenwriting resource and entertainment news outlet, specifically designed for writers, filmmakers, and creators. As President and Editorial Director, Schilf developed content that helped The Script Lab gain brand recognition as an industry leader, providing high-quality E-learning and industry education to millions worldwide. In 2014, The Script Lab was acquired by TSL Media, Inc., and Schilf stayed on as an Educational Consultant. Schilf is also a Los Angeles based screenwriter, script doctor, and story consultant. He has penned nine features, eight TV pilots, numerous shorts, as well as written and directed a webisode series. In addition, Schilf has written for well over 100 advertising campaigns (Nike, American Express, KIA, Volvo, Walmart, Ford, Target, Chrysler, Lexus, BMW, and Mercedes Benz), working with directors such as Jesse Dylan (American Wedding, Kicking & Screaming), James Frost (Radiohead’s “House of Cards”, OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass”), and Steven Tsuchida (Community, New Girl, Sirens). Schilf is author of The Sins of My Father: A Memoir, which takes an introspective look at growing up with an absentee, alcoholic, mentally ill father; co-creator and writer of SWORN, a fantasy, action, adventure series; co-creator and writer of LIGHT, a sci-fi, action, crime series; and writer/director of The Fixer, currently in post-production.

Steve Taylor lives in La Crescenta, California where he has helped to maintain the Earth's supply of oxygen by refusing to cut the lawn or trim the hedges, forestalling neighborhood protest and creating an air of personal mystery by assuming the role of the weird guy that lives there—I think he performs satanic rituals or writes or something. And indeed he does one of those things, which, over the last century or so, has won him an L.A. Arts Council Award in Literature and the 2004 Main Street Rag Fiction Contest, and made him a two-time finalist in the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and runner-up in the New Millennium Writings fiction competition. He has co-edited two anthologies with people rumored to be equally strange—Suicidally Beautiful, a collection of sports stories, with Dennis Borman, and Off the Line, poems and stories about American car culture, with Matt Taylor. His latest story collection is In Praise of Big Women (March 2020). He also somehow got a bunch of teaching awards at Glendale Community College where he tries his best to act modest and teaches Shakespeare, whom he occasionally believes he is, and Mythology, sometimes about himself, and where he is about to nap in his office, exhausted from all this bragging.