Ryn Seidewitz is a fourth-year studying English at the University of Chicago, where she won the Margaret C. Annan Memorial Prize.

Keenan Colditz is from a small town on the edge of the Mojave Desert that people drive through on their way to more important places. He currently attends the MFA program at San Diego State University.

Lisa Deng is a comic and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Previously, on the east coast, she studied the history of art and stop-motion animation at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She likes to be disgusted, which is why she enjoys celebrity gossip, turn of the century rom-coms and Bioré Deep Cleaning Pore …

Rachel Davey is a fourth year student at Emerson College. Although she is a Political Communications major, she enjoys creative writing in her free time, especially telling the stories of women.

Elizabeth Visscher graduated with a degree in painting and drawing and a minor in professional writing at Kennesaw State University as an undergrad and received her master’s in professional writing with a concentration in creative writing. Currently, she teaches first-year composition at KSU and works as a freelance writer and artist. Her flash fiction writing …

Jessica is a student in NYC; she loves reading campy horror books, watching bad TV, and playing DnD in her free time.