KELLY PUIG (from The Book of Disquiet) is the semi-heteronym of a nameless woman writing a novel entitled The Word for the Universe while pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Brown University’s Literary Arts Program. Prior to studying at Brown, she lived on a remote island in the Pacific as a practicing hermitesse. She graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor’s in English & Comparative Literature in addition to a Creative Writing concentration in Poetry.

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ANDER MONSON (“Dear Tom Chiarella,”) is the author of six books, including the forthcoming book in a box, Letter to a Future Lover (nonfiction, Graywolf, 2015), a website, a decoder wheel, two chapbooks, and other paraphernalia. He edits the magazine DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press.

ERICA SCHWIEGERSHAUSEN (“My Brother”) just graduated from Brown University. She lives in New York and is trying, unconvincingly, not to write so much about her family.

J.P. LAWRENCE (“Sonnet to Summer Baseball”) is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He served in southern Iraq from 2009 to 2010 as a military journalist with the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division. He wrote more than 100 pieces there. Today, he studies Creative Writing and Anthropology at Bard College, where he is editor of the student newspaper.