–Matt DeBenedictis is from many places. On a childhood camping trip he defended himself killing a snake, smashing a 40oz. of King Cobra over its head. Later he found a gun buried beneath rocks.

–Laura Straub is a writer and the woman behind Vouched Books Atlanta. Her work can be read at Vouchedbooks.com, Purge Atlanta, Scene Missing, Loose Change, Paste Magazine and other places.

–Jared Yates Sexton is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University and serves as Managing Editor at BULL. His work has appeared in publications around the world and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, The Million Writer’s Award, and was a finalist for the New American Fiction Prize.

–Amy McDaniel helps run the Solar Anus reading series in Atlanta, where she was born and raised. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Saveur, Alimentum, and The Agriculture Reader.