Rebecca Chace is the award-winning author of Leaving Rock Harbor (novel); Capture the Flag (novel); Chautauqua Summer (memoir); June Sparrow and The Million Dollar Penny (middle readers). Her fifth book, Talking to the Wolf (novel), is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. “Beka,14” a multi-media performance, received a development/collaborative artist fellowship at Catwalk Artist Residency. She has written for the New York Times, NYT Magazine, NYT Sunday Book Review, the Huffington Post, The LA Review of Books, and other publications. She has been awarded numerous fellowships and residencies including the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo; Dora Maar House, the American Academy in Rome (visiting artist) and many others. She is a faculty associate and program manager at the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Photo credit: Marco-Giugliarelli-for-Civitella-Ranieri-Foundation

Stéphanie Bonvicini is a French journalist, writer and artist. She is a graduate of the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA). For France Culture, she produced the program Le Sens des Choses and episodes of A Voix Nue. On the Public Senat TV channel, she hosted the interview Conversation d’Avenirs with the french economist Jacques Attali. She is the author of the acclaimed biography Louis Vuitton, une Saga française and three books in collaboration with Jacques Attali. In the field of children’s literature, she has published different books and a philosophical fairy tale, La Petite Taiseuse, illustrated by Marianne Ratier, nominated at several literary festivals and awarded the prestigious Prix Sorcières at the Paris Book Fair.

Debra Spark has published six books of fiction, two collections of essays about fiction writing, and two anthologies, the most recent to raise money for a hunger organization. Her novels and short stories have variously addressed romantic love, marriage, the mysteries of identity, art and deception, and contemporary anti-Semitism. Her most recent novel, Discipline, uses a narrative line about three stolen paintings to explore the haves and have nots of Maine, where she now lives. Her nonfiction includes book reviews, articles on home and design, and essays about aging, parenthood, and grief. She is currently writing about international medical graduates, modernist architects, orphan diseases, baseball, and religious converts, among other topics, for a book of essays focused on coincidence stories. She is the Zacamy Professor of English at Colby College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. © photo Michael Harris

Selby Wynn Schwartz is the author of After Sappho, published by Galley Beggar Press, which was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and shortlisted for both the 2023 Orwell Prize in Political Fiction and the 2023 James Tait Black Prize in Fiction. Her first book, The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives, was published by University of Michigan Press and received the 2020 Sally Banes Prize from the American Society of Theatre Research. Her novella A Life in Chameleons won the 2021 Reflex Press Novella Award. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Italian/French) from UC Berkeley.

Goldie Goldbloom grew up in Western Australia and now teaches in Chicago. A Chassidic mother of 8, she is also an LGBTQ activist. She has written three award-winning novels, The Paperbark Shoe, Gwen and On Division, as well as a collection of short stories, You Lose These. Goldie received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and her novel was selected for the NEA Big Reads list. Her essays and short stories have won many prizes and were published by Meanjin, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review and elsewhere. On Division won the Prix des Libraires for a book in translation