Chloe Martinez is a poet, a translator, and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the poetry collections Ten Thousand Selves and Corner Shrine and translator of Blue Like My Beloved: Poems of Mirabai. She works at Claremont McKenna College, where she is Associate Director for Programming at the Center for Writing and Public Discourse. Lisa Van Orman Hadley is the author of Irreversible Things, an autobiographical novel-in-stories. Her stories have most recently appeared in New England Review, The Collagist, and Epoch and have been shortlisted in Ploughshares and Glimmer Train. She lives in Salt Lake City and works as a freelance editor. Rebecca Makkai is the author of five books of fiction and a 2002 Guggenheim Fellow. Her novel The Great Believers, one of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, among other honors.