AMANDA STERN is the Brooklyn-based author of the critically-acclaimed novel THE LONG HAUL.  She hosts and curates the popular Happy Ending Music and Reading Series in NYC.  She is working on her next novel, tentatively titled THE GUTHRIE TEST. AmandaStern.com

TODD PRUZAN is an editor at Condé Nast Portfolio.  He's the co-author, with Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer, of THE CLUMSIEST PEOPLE IN EUROPE: or, MRS. MORTIMER’S BAD-TEMPERED GUIDE TO THE VICTORIAN WORLD.

SUSAN HENDERSON is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets award.  Her work has appeared in Zoetrope, Bellevue Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Arkansas Review, Other Voices, and THE FUTURE DICTIONARY OF AMERICA. LitPark.com

ROBIN SLICK is a raging liberal, published novelist, editor, and groupie mother of two-thirds of the Adrian Belew Power Trio.  She resides, sort of, in downtown Philadelphia.

ROCHELLE LOW began her literary life as a poet while attending UCLA.  Her fiction appears in WOMEN ON THE EDGE, an anthology of LA Women Writers.  She is working on a novel.

SHANNA MAHIN is working on a memoir that holds the unique distinction of actually being true.  At parties, she can be found in the corner, quietly judging you.  She was awarded a PEN/Emerging Voices Fellowship.

RACHEL SHUKERT is a New York City-based author and playwright.  Her first book, HAVE YOU NO SHAME? & OTHER REGRETTABLE STORIES was released in April.   She is a contributor to Salon, Nerve, McSweeney's, and Nextbook, and a columnist at Jewcy.  RachelShukert.com

ELLEN MEISTER is a former copywriter and the author of two novels:  THE SMART ONE and SECRET CONFESSIONS OF THE APPLEWOOD PTA.  She lives on Long Island with her husband and three children.

JAMES R. SPRING is a writer and independent radio producer.  In addition to co-hosting DimeStories, his work is featured on NPR programs for Atlantic Public Media and for This American Life. JamesRSpring.com

EBER LAMBERT is a lazy writer with a decent day job. He hosts The New Poetic Brew open mic in San Diego, and boasts a recently expunged FBI file.

JODY HAUBER is a Los Angeles-based writer whose fiction appeared in the anthology WOMEN ON THE EDGE.  She has recently completed work on a novel (EVERYTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS).

PASHA MALLA is the author of THE WITHDRAWAL METHOD, a collection of stories, and the poetry collection ALL OUR GRANDFATHERS ARE GHOSTS.

R.E. NEU started by writing for Spy magazine, and has since appeared all over...  from Los Angeles Magazine to the New York Times Book Review.  He recently completed his first novel.  Visit his blog: WorldClassStupid.blogspot.com

AMY WALLEN, co-host of DimeStories, wants to sell you MOONPIES & MOVIESTARS.  Meet her by the suitcase at the back of the room.  AmyWallen.com