Marguerite (Maggie) Sheffer is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University\, where she teaches courses in design th inking and speculative fiction as tools for social change. Formerly\, she taught English at the East Oakland School of the Arts\, Castlemont High Sc hool\, Life Academy\, and GW Carver High School. \;Her debut short sto ry collection\, The Man in the Banana Trees\, was selected by jud ge Jamil Jan Kochai for the Iowa Short Fiction Award. It was also a Debuti ful Best Debut Book of 2024\, and one of Electric Literature&rsquo\;s Most Exciting Debut Short Story Collections of 2024. \;
\nAnnell L&o acute\;pez is a Dominican immigrant. She is the author of the short story collection I&rsquo\;ll Give You a Reason\, winner of the Louise M eriwether First Book Prize\, from the Feminist Press. A 2022 Peter Taylor fellow\, her work has received support from Tin House and the Ken yon Review Workshops and has appeared in American Short Fiction\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Brooklyn Rail\, The Com mon\, Refinery29\, and elsewhere. Ló\;pez is an Assist ant Fiction Editor for New Orleans Review and received her MFA at the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel.
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‹Vanessa Saunders teaches as a Professor of Practice at Loyola Universit
y New Orleans\, and was the editor-in-chief of Helium Journal fro
m 2013 to 2016. \;Her writing has appeared in Seneca Review\,
Sycamore Review\, Los Angeles Review\, Nat. Brut\, Entropy\, PANK\, Passages North\, \;
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