Dan Bevacqua has lived in New Jersey, Vermont, California, Massachusetts, and New York. He is a graduate of Emerson College with a B.F.A. in writing, literature and publishing.

Thom Blaylock received his M.F.A. from Columbia University's School of the Arts in 2007. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Believer, The Irish Times, Libertas, U-Blue, and Project Flamingo. A former editor of Columbia: a Journal of Literature and Art and a contributing editor at Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics, Thom currently teaches writing to graduate students in Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where he also edits the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He lives in New York.

Brie Bouslaugh is an M.F.A. candidate in fiction at Columbia University and holds a B.F.A. in writing, literature and publishing from Emerson College. She has also studied deaf culture in America, and is conversational in American Sign Language. Bouslaugh is currently working on a collection of short stories and lives in Brooklyn.

Rachel Carter is in the process of finishing her M.F.A. from School of the Arts Writing Program at Columbia, with a concentration in nonfiction writing. She earned her B.A. degree from the University of Vermont. While there, she studied English and women's studies. She is currently an instructor in the University Writing Program at Columbia, where she teaches Freshman Writing.

Meehan Crist is reviews editor at The Believer and teaches Undergraduate Writing at Columbia University, where she is also a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate in nonfiction writing. Previously, she was nonfiction editor of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and editorial assistant at Bitch Magazine: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Her reviews, essays, and articles have appeared in publications such as Poets & Writers Magazine, Small Spiral Notebook, Bitch, and The Believer. Everything After, her nonfiction book investigating the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy, and memoir is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin.

Ann DeWitt is pursuing her M.F.A. in fiction writing at Columbia 's School of the Arts. Her short story, "Influence?" has appeared as part of Esquire Magazine's Napkin Fiction Project.  She is currently the fiction editor of Columbia : A Journal of Literature and Art.  Ann previously served as an associate literary agent at The Literary Group International.

Born and raised in Queens, Matthew Di Paoli is a graduate of Boston College, where he received the Dever Fellowship for creative writing. He has recently completed his M.F.A. in fiction at Columbia University and his novel The Other Side of Morning. He has been published in the West Coast Journal.

David Gerrard received his M.F.A. in fiction writing in 2007 from Columbia's School of the Arts. He is the 2003 recipient of the Brownstein prize for fiction.

Emily Feder teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University. She is also an M.F.A. candidate in nonfiction writing at Columbia’s School of the Arts. She writes primarily about immigration issues and has worked for human rights and refugee resettlement organizations in Serbia, Russia, and Croatia, including the International Rescue Committee and USAID. She received a School of the Arts Hertog Research Fellowship in 2008.

Thomas Hummel's work has appeared or is forthcoming in 1913: A Journal of Forms, The Canary, Colorado Review, Fence, Modern Review, VOLT, and elsewhere. He works for the Estate of Jackson Mac Low and the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. He lives in Manhattan.

Kristina Jipson is an M.F.A. candidate in the School of the Arts Poetry Program at Columbia, expecting to graduate in May 2008. She is also an instructor in Columbia 's University Writing Program, where she currently teaches General Studies students and works as a peer consultant.

Marina Kaganova received a B.A. with honors in creative writing with a concentration in poetry & fiction, classics, and English at The University of Arizona, where she was a recipient of the Hattie Lockett, Desmond Powell and Margaret Sterling awards for poetry, an English Department scholarship and a four-year tuition waiver. She has published two translations for the Tretyakov Gallery magazine. Presently, she is a second-year M.F.A. candidate with a concentration in poetry at Columbia, graduating in October 2009. She holds a position as a teaching assistant/tutor at the SEEK department of John Jay College.

Ryan Kearney is a former staff writer, editor, and critic for several newspapers in the Boston area, as well as the alt-weekly New Haven Advocate and the music website, Pitchfork.com. He is currently at work on a travel memoir set in Latin America.

Julie Limbaugh is in the process of finishing her M.F.A. from Columbia, with a concentration in nonfiction writing. She earned her B.A. and master’s in education and English from Truman State University. While there, she studied English and Spanish. Julie has lived all over the world from Hawaii to Australia to Spain to New York, but Missouri is still where she calls home.

Joshua Marcus is an M.F.A candidate in creative writing at Columbia University. His essays have appeared in publications such as The Times Literary Supplement and San Francisco Bay Guardian. He will serve as an instructor for the University Writing Program starting next fall. He has taught creative writing to grade school students in Harlem and has tutored writing for 15 years.

Carey McHugh received her M.F.A. from Columbia University's School of the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds &c., was selected by Rae Armantrout for the Poetry Society of America's 2007 New York Chapbook Fellowship. She currently lives in Manhattan and teaches writing in the Bronx.

Jen Miller is a fiction student in Columbia 's School of the Arts.  She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia and has published in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Smithsonian.com.  She is also the author of Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East (Ballantine Books, 2005), a narrative non-fiction book about Israeli and Palestinian teenagers.  She is currently teaching creative writing in the Columbia Artists/Teachers program and writing her first novel.  

Kristen O'Toole is an M.F.A. candidate in the fiction concentration of Columbia University's Creative Writing Program. She received a B.A. in English from Bates College in 2002. She has taught creative writing workshops for middle and high school students and directed Columbia Artists/Teachers, an organization that offers arts and creative writing programs to educational sites around New York. She has contributed to Boston, Portland and Phoenix newspapers, Publishers Weekly, Esquire's Books Blog, and flavorwire.com. Her fiction has appeared in Gigantic, Flatmancrooked, Fogged Clarity, and Anderbo.com, where she is an associate editor.

Matthew Parker is a recent graduate of Barrett's Honors College at Arizona State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English literature. Before returning to school he was employed in such diverse trades as carpentry, drywall, auto mechanics, and set design. He is now working on a memoir and a graphic novel while earning his M.F.A.

Bridget Potter is an instructor in Columbia 's University Writing Program and a candidate for an M.F.A. in the nonfiction writing program in the School of the Arts here. Her work has been published twice in Quarto. She comes to academia after a career as a television producer and executive.  Most notably, she headed original programming at HBO in its formative period. She later produced the first season of HBO's acclaimed series Oz and also developed, with Tom Hanks, their Emmy Award winning mini-series From Here to the Moon. At NBC she headed Entertainment Programming on the east coast where she supervised Saturday Night Live and The Conan O'Brian Show, among other programs.

Debra Resnicoff has been leading creative writing workshops at the Summer Program for High School Students for a decade. Inspired by her Columbia students, Debra founded creativeapplicationcoach.com, an academic and admissions counseling service. She received a B.A. in literature and writing and an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University. Debra is a published and produced author. Like most former screenwriters she still dreams in three-act structure. She is currently working on a book of short stories.

Christina Rumpf received her B.A. in English from Columbia University in 2004 and is currently completing her M.F.A. in nonfiction writing at Columbia 's School of the Arts.  She has received the Louis Sudler Award for the Arts and the Arthur Ford Prize for Poetry.  She is also an alum of Columbia 's Summer Program for High School Students.

Ana Saldamando holds a B.A. from Barnard College and is pursuing her M.F.A. in fiction writing at Columbia University 's School of the Arts. She is currently working on a novel and lives in Brooklyn.

Gordon Sauer is a M.F.A. candidate in Columbia University's School of the Arts. Originally from Texas, he received his B.A. with honors in English literature from Texas A&M University, where he won first place for undergraduate fiction in the Charles Gordone Award competition. He earned his M.A. in English and American literature from Clemson University. Sauer is an instructor in Columbia's Undergraduate Writing Program, is on the nonfiction board for Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and writes for Columbia College Today.

Kathleen Savino is a third-year fiction student in Columbia 's School of the Arts.  Some of her publications include: the Columbia Poetry Review, Venus Magazine, and Threshold: Passages from Prague.  She teaches university writing for the Undergraduate Writing Program, as well as a class in personal essay writing through Columbia Artists and Teachers. She is currently working on a hybrid novel titled How to Sleep Jackknife and a collection of poems titled Lampblack.