P. Paramita is a Bangladesh-born, New Haven-based writer, professor, and pop culture enthusiast. Paramita holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where P was a recipient of the Waletzky Fellowship. Paramita’s debut novel APPETITE—named one of 2026's most anticipated title by Debutiful and Electric Literature— has been described by Booklist as "gorgeous, hilarious, and deeply relatable."

Mike Scalise is the author of the memoir The Brand New Catastrophe which won the Christopher Doheny Award for excellence in illness writing from The Center for Fiction. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The New York Times, Bon Appétit, Agni, Harper’s Bazaar and elsewhere. He’s received support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Art Omi, Bread Loaf, Yaddo, and Ucross, and he was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University.

erica kaufman is the author of three books of poetry: POST CLASSIC, INSTANT CLASSIC (both from Roof Books), and censory impulse (Factory School). she is co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards and a collection of archival pedagogical documents, Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968–1974. she directs the Institute for Writing & Thinking and the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College, where she is also Writer-in-Residence.

Elena Dudum is a Palestinian-American writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, TIME, Cosmopolitan, and Bon Appétit, among others. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2025 for They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful, as well as the 2024 LANDO Grant from The de Groot Foundation. She has received  additional support from Hedgebrook, Tin House, and Sewanee. Born in San Francisco, she now lives between New York and London.