Claire Grossman is an assistant professor of English at Occidental College. She has written for Cultural Critique and (with Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young) American Literary History, The Cambridge Companion to the Essay, and Public Books.

Juliana Spahr is Frederick A. Rice Professor at Mills College at Northeastern University. Her most recent book of poems is Ars Poeticas (2025) and her most recent book of scholarship is Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (2018).

Stephanie Young directs the creative writing program at Mills College at Northeastern University and is a member of the Krupskaya Books editorial collective. Her books of poetry and prose include Pet Sounds (2019), which received a Lambda Literary Award.