Jeanette Quick is an author of fiction, poetry, theater reviews, and thoughts on loose scraps of paper near her desk, and is working on her first novel. Her work has been published in The Offing, Ghostwoods Press, Ursus Americanus, DC Metro Theater Arts, and Forum, among other publications. She is a fiction reader for The Maine Review and a nonfiction reader for Autumn House Press. Jeanette has earned residencies from Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Art Farm, Eugene O'Neill Foundation, and Sundress Academy for the Arts and has received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation for the Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop. Jeanette has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the City College of San Francisco, a Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley, and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. When she isn't writing, she is a lawyer and public policy professional, and her work advocating for underserved communities has appeared in many publications, including Fast Company, MSN, Morning Consult, Forbes, Business Insider, The Hill, and American Banker

Nina is a Ukrainian American writer based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in Sinking City Literary Journal, Coal Hill Review, Sledgehammer Lit, MONEY, Tasting Table, and elsewhere. She is an editor of the Writer's Foundry Review and a co-teacher for Voices From War, a veteran writing workshop. Nina served in the army for five years and is originally from upstate New York.