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Kelly Braffet is the author of two novels, Josie and Jack and, most recently, Last Seen Leaving. In a starred review, Publisher's Weekly described her second novel as "brilliant," replete with "fluid prose, vivid characters and suspenseful twists," and Library Journal hailed it as a "solidly crafted and compelling...effort, which will secure the author's place as a novelist of note." Ms. Braffet is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, and teaches novel writing at the Sackett Street Writing Workshop in Brooklyn.

Peter Selgin is the author of By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers, forthcoming in February from Writer’s Digest Books. His stories have appeared in literary journals Glimmer Train, The Sun, The Missouri Review, and The Bellevue Literary Review, among others, and are forthcoming in anthologies Our Roots are Deep in Passion, and Best American Essays 2006. His novel, Life Goes to the Movies, was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. His short story collection, Nothing but Water, was short-listed for the Iowa Fiction Award in 2005. He leads a writing workshop in Vitorchiano, Italy, and is co-editor of Alimentum, the only literary journal all about food.

Karen Moulding has written three novels, including The Naked Shopper, Unbox and The Untrainable Heart. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Woman in the Window, a fiction anthology, as well as The Piedmont Review, and Spectrum. She has been awarded several fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and earned an MFA in Fiction and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University. She is author of the biannually-updated legal treatise Sexual Orientation and the Law. In her free time, Karen likes to go-go dance, and she can be seen every Tuesday night at Happy Ending shaking her stuff.