Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Unmarketable, the Eisner Award-winning Sweet Little Cunt, Gentrifier, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, and others. She is the founding editor of The Best American Comics and the former editor of Punk Planet, The Comics Journal, and the Chicago Reader. She has written for The Guardian, The Baffler, and The Onion. Moore is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and a former Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College, and has received support for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts and lives in New York with two ineffective feline personal assistants.

Sabrina Cartan is a digital strategist, culture writer, and fan activist who studies the intersection of fandom and civic life. She is the Board Co-President of Fandom Forward and host of the “Fandom Made Me” podcast.

Lacy Warner is a frequent contributor to Vogue and has written for Guernica, Longreads, New York Magazine and others. She lives in Providence, RI where she’s currently working on several projects that explore such varied subjects as synchronized swimming, the photographer Francesca Woodman and the complicated histories of professional muses. 

Anna Hamilton (they/them) is a writer and comedian based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their work has appeared in Bitch Magazine, Teen Vogue, the Disability Visibility Project, and many other publications. You can follow them on Twitter at @annaham360, on Instagram @annaham_stagram, subscribe to their newsletter Citizen Cane, or visit their website at annaham.net.

Helen Donahue has worked as a columnist at both Vice and Playboy. Her writing has additionally been featured in Art in America, Input, Billboard, Notion Magazine, and more. She is working on a forthcoming essay with Epic Magazine and a memoir with Janklow & Nesbitt.

You can find her in the pottery studio, playing video games, walking her one-eyed dog in Tabi boots, or making really stupid jokes on Twitter.

Dr. Amanda E. Rogers is NEH Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at Colgate University, where her academic expertise includes political aesthetics, new media, and visual culture in the Middle East. Rogers also serves as a subject matter expert and consultant on insurgent media for the US Department of State and the United Nations.

Antonia Crane is the author of the memoir “Spent,” which was translated in French last year by Tusitala a écrit to much fanfare, including in “L’Obs,” the most prominent weekly magazine in France. Her award-winning essays have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Quartz, PRISM, Buzzfeed, N+1 and others. She was awarded the Outstanding Community Service & Activism Award from Antioch University Alumni Association in 2018. She is currently a PhD candidate at USC and continues to advocate for sex worker rights.

s.e. smith is a Northern California-based journalist, essayist, and editor. smith’s work on disability, culture, and social attitudes has appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Vice, in addition to anthologies, most recently Body Language (Catapult, 2022). They received a National Magazine Award in 2020 for their work in Catapult.

Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in The LA Times, NYT Book Review, NYRB, Longreads, Paris Review online, and dozens of other places. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, was published with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in April 2022. She is a Ph.D. candidate at USC’s Creative Writing Program. Melissa is a worker lover and through her own work and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she’s basically been doing that ever since.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle is a journalist, opinion writer, and the author of two non-fiction books, including Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019) and Trainwreck: The Women We Love To Hate, Mock and Fear… and Why (Melville House, 2016). MAW, his horror comic with artist A.L. Kaplan, is now out in a collected edition from BOOM! Studios.

Alicia Kennedy is a writer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She publishes a weekly newsletter on food culture, media, and politics called From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, and has a book on plant-based eating forthcoming with Beacon Press.

Rax King is the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky (Vintage 2021) and co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her toothless pekingese.