Kerry Cullen’s debut novel, House of Beth, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her short fiction has been published in The Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, One Teen Story, and more. She earned her MFA at Columbia University, and she lives in New York.

Maribeth Batcha is the publisher and co-founder of One Story. She has worked in magazine circulation for over 25 years for titles including Diabetes Self-Management, Lingua Franca, University Business, the New York Review of Books, Working Mother, and The Progressive. In addition to circulation consulting, she currently does marketing and development copywriting for not-for-profits, including the 92nd Street Y and the National Academy Foundation. She has a BA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.

Maggie Love’s fiction, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, appears in Electric Literature, Mississippi Review, and Santa Monica Review. Her work has been supported by Community of Writers, and she’s an alum of the Tin House Summer Workshop. She has an MFA from UC Irvine, where she was the fiction editor for Faultline. Currently she’s the assistant editor at One Story. Previously, she held positions at The New York Review of Books, W.W. Norton & Company, and the Book Department at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, she now lives in Brooklyn. She’s working on a short story collection.

Lena Valencia is the author of the short story collection Mystery Lights (Tin House Books / Dead Ink Books), which was longlisted for the Story Prize, named a Best Short Story Collection of 2024 by Electric Literature, and a Best Horror Book of 2024 by Esquire. Her fiction has appeared in BOMB, The Baffler, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, Epiphany, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. Her writing has been supported by the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Convent Arts Fellowship, and she holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. For more information please visit lenavalencia.com.

Hannah Tinti is the co-founder and executive editor of One Story magazine. She is the author of the bestselling novel The Good Thief, which won The Center for Fiction’s first novel prize, and the story collection Animal Crackers, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her most recent novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, is a national bestseller and is in development for television. She co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference in Italy and has taught writing at New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, Columbia University’s MFA program, CUNY, and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. For more information please visit hannahtinti.com.

J.L. Zhang is a writer, actor, and spreadsheet enthusiast who’s previously worked in a cobbler shop and as One Story’s 2024–2025 apprentice. They hold a B.A. from Brown University, and they’re working on a project about wrestling, un-changelings, and Circle K. They dislike the word “experimental.”