Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection Places I've Taken my Body --published in the United States in 2020 by Persea Books and in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Faber & Faber-- and the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017. With Susannah Nevison, she is coauthor of the poetry collection In The Field Between Us (Persea Books, 2020), an NEA Big Read selection. Brown has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship and the Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship from the Oxford American magazine. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, The Yale Review and elsewhere. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Sewanee: the University of the South, and Editor-in-Chief of Image Journal . Elizabeth Catte is the author two books, What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (2018) and Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia (2021). Deaf and genderqueer poet Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level , winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award. She is a recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and an NEA Fellowship in Poetry.

Day's recent work can be found in The Best American Poetry and The New York Times. Day is Associate Professor of English and creative writing in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. Paul A. Lombardo is Regents' Professor and Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law. His research as a lawyer/historian has focused on the legal history of the American eugenics movement. He teaches Genetics and the Law, Mental Health and the Law, Bioethics and the Law, and the History of Public Health Law. From 2010-2016 he served as Senior Advisor to the President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues that reported on the US Public Health research scandal in post-WWII Guatemala. Clare Mullaney's research and teaching rest at the intersection between nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.

S. literature, disability studies, and material text studies. Her book project, A Word Made Flesh: Disability Writing and Editorship in U.S. Literature and Culture, reveals how publishing networks recover writing about disability without erasing marks of authors' impairments or access needs from the page. Her work has received awards from the American Antiquarian Society, the Emily Dickinson International Society, Pennsylvania State University's First Book Institute, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library, the Society for Disability Studies, and the Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists. She is currently a junior member of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School.

In 2023, she received Clemson University's John B. and Thelma A. Gentry Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and has previously taught at Bryn Mawr and Hamilton Colleges. Kiki Petrosino is the author of the memoir Bright (2022) and the following poetry collections: White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia (2020), Witch Wife (2017), Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013), and Fort Red Border (2009).