Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer, and PEN /American Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction award finalist for her story collection White Dancing Elephants: Stories,which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and BestShort Story Collection and appeared on "best of" lists for Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue India, and Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared inThe New York Times, Salon, The Sun, Narrative Magazine, Tin House,Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Masters Review, The Millions,Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Community of Writers, and Sewanee Writers Workshop. Mauricio Montiel Figueiras is a writer of prose fictionand essays, as well as a poet, translator, editor, and film andliterary critic. He is the author of fifteen books in different genres.His work has been published in magazines and newspapers in Argentina,Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom,and the United States. He has been Resident Writer for the CheltenhamFestival of Literature in England (2003) and The Bellagio Study andConference Center in Italy (2008).
In 2012 he was appointed ResidentWriter for the prestigious Hawthornden Retreat for Writers in Scotland.In 2020 he was selected artist in residence for the Saari Residence inFinland. Since 1995 he lives and works in Mexico City. Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and three collections of short stories: Shadowselves, Neighbors of Nothing, and Rabbit Punches. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Atlantic Monthly FictionContest, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, he was also a finalistfor the Shirley Jackson Award and the Million Writers Award. His workhas appeared in journals and anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories, Granta, The Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, One Story, and McSweeney's. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University. Jeff Parker is the author of several books including Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal, the novel Ovenman, and the short story collection The Taste of Penny.
He teaches prose in the MFA Program at the University of MassachusettsAmherst, and he is the co-founder and director of the DISQUIETInternational Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal.