Moderator: Megan Milks is the author of Kill Marguerite and Other Stories, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Milks edited The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing 2011–2013 and teaches literature and creative writing at Beloit College.

Amber Dawn has authored a poetry collection, Where the words end and my body begins; memoir, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir; novel, Sub Rosa; and edited the anthologies, Fist of the Spider Women: Fear and Queer Desire and With A Rough Tongue.

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is author of Blue Talk and Love (stories). She is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at UMass Amherst, and has published in Callaloo, American Fiction, Best New Writing, and others. She has won support from Bread Loaf, the Center for Fiction, Yaddo, and the NEA.

Tom Cho is the author of the collection of fiction Look Who’s Morphing, which was brought to fruition as part of his PhD in professional writing. He has received various grants and residencies, has had his fiction published widely in literary magazines, and is writing a novel on the meaning of life.

Tim Jones-Yelvington is a Chicago-based writer and multimedia performance artist. He is the author of two collections of short fiction—Evan’s House and the Other Boys Who Live There and This is a Dance Movie!