Rebecca Nieto (“Hair Trigger,”) studies English at Oberlin College. Originally from New Mexico, she divides her time unequally between living amongst theory heads in rural Ohio and taking long walks in the Southwest. She has interned at The Believer, and secured a brief stint writing ekphrastic blurbs for the Alibi, an Albuquerque-based newsweekly. To date, she has amassed a small shoebox full of unpublished short fiction, thinks regularly about library-science school, and is working on compiling submissions for a zine about queer mustaches.

Yael Grauer (“Heroine Overdose”) is a freelance writer who’s been working with independent print media since she started self-publishing at the age of 12. She studied classic literature and philosophy at Shimer College, graduating in 1998 with a BA in social sciences. Yael covers food and food politics, health and wellness, physical fitness, and mixed martial arts. She also works with small businesses on search engine optimization, copywriting, and communications, and serves as the managing editor for the Performance Menu: Journal of Health & Athletic Excellence. When she’s not working, Yael enjoys hiking, cooking, lifting heavy objects, listening to bluegrass, practicing her Brazilian jiu jitsu, and eating chocolate—but not all at the same time. Find her at yaelwrites.com.

Yoswadi Krutklom (illustration,“Hair Trigger”) was born in Thailand, where she began drawing at an early age. She earned a BFA in visual communication design at Silpakorn University, and has had her work recognized by Young Reader Awards and featured in Creative Quarterly and Thailand Yoga Journal, among others. In 2007, she continued her art education at Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. She currently lives in New York City.

Eryn Loeb (“Past Imperfect”) is a writer and editor in New York, where she writes frequently about nostalgia, books, and feminism—and sometimes, the wonderfully awkward collision of those things. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, Time Out New York, Poets & Writers, Tablet Magazine, Bookslut, and The Rumpus.net. She has a weakness for old photographs, vintage dresses, and handwritten correspondence, but she’s also a big fan of frozen entrees and high-speed Internet. She’d really like to know what you’re nostalgic for (and what you’re not). Read more at thefastertimes.com/nostalgia, and erynloeb.com.

Esther Pearl Watson is the author of the comic Unlovable published by Fantagraphics and recognized by The Best American Comics 2006 and recently awarded The Society of Illustrator's Silver Medal. For the past seven years, Unlovable has run in Bust Magazine. Unlovable is loosely based on a teenager's diary Watson found in a gas-station bathroom. Watson also creates mini-comics and zines with her husband Mark Todd under the name of FunChicken.