Dr. Eric Sneathen is a poet and queer literary historian living in Alameda, CA. He is the author of Don't Leave Me This Way (Nightboat Books, 2023), Minor Work (MO0ON/IO, 2021), and Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016). With Lauren Levin, he co-edited the selected fictions of Camille Roy, Honey Mine (Nightboat Books, 2021). He received his PhD in Creative-Critical Studies from UC Santa Cruz in 2022, and his essays, reviews, and interviews have been published by Jacket2, SF MoMA's Open Space, Poetry Foundation, and Social Text Online. With Daniel Benjamin he organized Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today and edited The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture. He has worked with a number of small presses in the San Francisco Bay Area; new titles are forthcoming from his and Noah Ross's press, SPUNK Editions.

Amanda Crocker is Managing Editor of Between the Lines, a social movement press founded in 1977. BTL authors are academics, journalists, artists, and activists who hope their books will spark political and social change. 

As a publishing house, BTL embodies cooperative and democratic ideals: BTL has no boss, no individual owner; it is run by a small staff collective and a dedicated volunteer editorial committee. The press publishes books not to seek profit, but to document and promote struggles for a better world, challenge the mainstream, and offer readers new perspectives on critical political issues.

Taras Grescoe, the author of eight non-fiction books (among them the best-selling Bottomfeeder, Shanghai Grand, Straphanger, and The Devil’s Picnic), has been a professional, full-time freelance journalist in Canada for the last thirty years. His works of book-length reportage and creative non-fiction, which have been published in Toronto, New York, and London and translated into half a dozen languages, have received international critical acclaim. His books have won major awards internationally and in Canada (the Mavis Gallant Prize, the Edna Staebler Prize, the Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction) and been finalists for prestigious non-fiction prizes (the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing). His features have appeared in The Walrus, Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail, L’actualité, Canadian Geographic, Maclean’s, The National Post and The Ottawa Citizen, and been published around the world in The New Yorker, Gourmet, Travel + Leisure, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Afar, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, The Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Times of London and more.

Shane Hawk, a member of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is a history teacher by day and a horror writer by night. Hawk’s literary contributions include his debut story collection, Anoka, as well as short fiction featured in numerous anthologies. He co-edited the Bram Stoker, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthology Never Whistle at Night, which reached its tenth printing just one month after publication. He has co-written an Indigenous Horror stage play with Andrea L. Rogers, titled The Land Has Spoken, set to premiere in October 2024 and tour the country the following year. Hawk resides in San Diego, California with his beautiful wife and daughter. 

Jessica Johns is a queer nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award, was a Canada Reads finalist, and won the WGA Fiction Prize.