Sarah Salcedo is an award-winning filmmaker, author, and illustrator. She is a BendFilm: Basecamp Fellow and her award-winning documentary film, Promised Land, debuted in film festivals in 2016. She was the 2022 Writer-in-Residence for Town Hall Seattle, and is a Tin House Workshop and Stowe Story Labs alum. She has received multiple grants from 4Culture and Artist Trust for her fiction and film work. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with her partner and film collaborator, Vasant Salcedo. https://www.sarah-salcedo.com

G.G. Silverman is a first-generation Italian-American writer. She is also disabled and neurodivergent. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Fiction, and the O. Henry Prize, and has been adapted for short film with a Hollywood debut. Her work has also appeared in Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthologies, and has been a finalist for the Speculative Literature Foundation's Diverse Writers Grant, as well as the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing. The Blood Year Daughter, a finalist for numerous awards, is her debut short story collection.

Rosalind Margulies is a fiction and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's, EPOCH, StoryQuarterly, The Harvard Advocate, and X-R-A-Y, among others. Her fiction has been no

Benjamin Schmitt is the Elgin Award–nominated author of five books, most recently Satan's School for Girls and Other Works (forthcoming, Goldfish Press, 2026). His writing has appeared in Antioch Review, Sojourners, The Seattle Times, Hobart, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers' Workshop, he lives in Seattle.