Edie Falco is best known for her roles as Diane Whittlesey on the HBO series Oz, Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos, and the title role of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. For her television work she has received multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards, as well as the American Film Institute’s Award for Female Television Actor of the Year. Broadway credits include the Tony Award–winning play Sideman, Frankie and Johnny in The Clair De Lune, ‘Night Mother, and The House of Blue Leaves, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Off-broadway she has appeared in The Madrid, This Wide Night, The True, and Morning Sun. Her work in feature film includes Cost of Living (American Film Institute’s Best Actress Award), Laws of Gravity (Independent Spirit Award nomination), Sunshine State, Landline, Hurricane, The Funeral, The Addiction, Freedomland, The Land of Steady Habits, Judy Berlin, and the forthcoming Avatar sequels.

Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2022, Lee received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition.

Hettienne Park is best known for her roles as Beverly Katz on Hannibal and Tamika Collins on Stephen King's The Outsider. Her additional screen credits include Don’t Look Up, written and directed by Adam McKay, Gossip Girl, The OA, Blacklist, High Maintenance, Bride Wars, Damages, The Good Wife, Young Adult, Blindspot, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Prodigal Son, Law & Order, and more. Park appeared on Broadway in Seminar with Alan Rickman and off-Broadway in Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, earning her a Theatre World Award, honoring her outstanding debuts both on and off Broadway. Park will appear on HBO Max in The Girls On The Bus, inspired by the book Chasing Hillary by New York Times journalist Amy Chozick.

Anna Uzele is a New York-based actress who recently starred in the Broadway musical New York, New York, inspired by the Martin Scorcese film of the same name, for which she was nominated for the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical. On screen, Anna recently starred as Adriana on Apple TV+’s Dear Edward, based on the award-winning novel by Ann Napolitano. She previously recurred on Showtime’s City on a Hill and guest-starred on CBS’ FBI. On the stage, Uzele made her Broadway debut in Once on This Island. She starred as Catherine Parr in the North American tour and Broadway debut of Six. She and the cast were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Anna is a graduate of Texas State University, where she earned her BFA in musical theater.

Cherline Bazile is a Haitian American writer from Florida. She graduated from Harvard University and received her MFA in Fiction from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her work has been supported by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, the Mass Cultural Council, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and more.

Taryn Bowe’s recent work has appeared in Epoch, The Sewanee Review, Indiana Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and Joyland. She lives with her husband and daughter in Maine, where she serves as the Associate Director at the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

Heidi Pitlor is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, which was optioned for film, and Impersonation. She has been the series editor of The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the director of Heidi Pitlor Editorial and the editorial director of the literary studio Plympton. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Lit Hub, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Esther Yi was born in Los Angeles in 1989 and currently lives in Leipzig, Germany.