Peter von Ziegesar is the author of the memoir, The Looking Glass Brother (Picador, 2014). In 2022 he founded the Tennants Cove Writers Workshop, a center for fiction, memoir, and screenwriting located on the Saint John River in New Brunswick, Canada. He has written for The New York Times, WNYC, Art in America, Artnet, Lapham's Quarterly, The Common, Aeon, Serious Eats, Out, Outside, and more. He is a book editor for and founding board member of the literary translation publisher, Archipelago Books, winner of numerous national and international awards. His films are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and were featured in the recent MoMA exhibitions, Private Lives, Public Spaces and Club 57. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Hali Lee, and several hives of Italian honey bees.

Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood, and editor of Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity, two anthologies of new writing by D.C. women writers. She is a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship and the Center for Mark Twain Studies’ Quarry Farm Fellowship. Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is currently an associate professor in Literature at American University.