Melissa Goodrich is the author of Daughters of Monsters. She received her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and her MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona. She has taught creative writing, composition, and humanities at the University of Arizona and BASIS.

Dana Diehl is an author and teacher in Tucson. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University, where she also served as editor of Hayden's Ferry Review. She has taught at ASU, the National University of Singapore, the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence, and Basis Primary. She is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (2016), and her work has appeared in North American Review, Passages North, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere.