Aamina Ahmad’s first novel, The Return of Faraz Ali, was named a notable New York Times and NPR pick for 2022 and went on to win the Art Seidenbaum Los Angeles Times First Book prize, The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain First Book prize. Her story collection, July Sun, was published by Riverhead in 2026. She is also the author of a play, The Dishonored. She teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota.

Before joining One Story as a contributing editor in 2011, Will served as executive editor of Story and editor-at-large of Zoetrope: All-Story. He has taught creative writing at Columbia University, The Ohio State University, and elsewhere. He is the author of two novels, What You Have Left, named a notable book by the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times bestseller Long Drive Home, which is currently being adapted for the stage. His stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, One Story, Zoetrope: All-Story, Shenandoah, Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. As a freelance editor specializing in fiction and creative nonfiction, he works one-on-one with both new and established authors. For more information please visit willallison.com.

Manuel Gonzales is the author of the collection, The Miniature Wife and other stories, and the novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack! His novel, Escape from Blackthorne Island, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books. He teaches creative writing and literature at Bennington College, is the fiction editor of The Bennington Review, and a contributing editor for American Short Fiction and One Story Magazine.

Shannon Sanders is the author of The Great Wherever, which is a 2026 Reese’s Book Club pick and Book of the Month pick. It was named a Most Anticipated book by NPR, People, Oprah Daily, Esquire, and more. She is also the author of the linked short-story collection Company, which won the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, was named a best book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly and Debutiful, and was shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including One Story, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature, and has received a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her husband and their three sons.

Patrick Ryan is the internationally best-selling author of the novel Buckeye ( a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Read-with Jenna Pick, and a Book of the Month Club selection), the short story collection The Dream Life of Astronauts (longlisted for The Story Prize, named one the Best Books of the Year by the St. Louis Times-Dispatch, LitHub, Refinery 29, and Electric Literature) and the short story collection Send Me (selected for the Barnes & Noble Discovery Series). His fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories. The former associate editor of Granta, Patrick is editor-at-large at One Story. He lives in New York City. For more information please visit patrickryanbooks.com.

Hannah Tinti is the co-founder and editor-in-chief 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 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.

Amanda Rea’s stories have appeared in Harper’s, Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, American Short Fiction, Freeman’s, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. She has been awarded a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the William Peden Prize, and has been shortlisted for Best American Short Stories three times. Her fellowships include time at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Institute of Creative Writing in Wisconsin, Ragdale Foundation, and Jentel Artist Residency. She lives in Colorado.