Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh was born in Washington, D.C. to an Iranian father and an American mother. She moved to Iran at age 5 and grew up in Tehran under the Shah. She returned to the U.S. to attend Stanford University, and when the Islamic Revolution started brewing shortly after she graduated, she moved back to Iran and plopped herself down in it. She later received an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. A lifelong English teacher, she has taught in schools and universities on three continents, and she now lives in the United States. Her fiction has been published in numerous publications, including The Georgia Review, Gertrude Press, and Fiction International, and she received an honorable mention for The Best American Short Stories 2018. Her latest book, Zan, a collection of short stories, is published in 2024 by Dzanc Books and was the Winner of the 2022 Dzanc Short Collection Prize.

https://www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p/zan

Renée D. Bondy taught in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, where she facilitated courses on queer activism, women and religion, and the history of women’s movements. Her writing has appeared in Herizons, Bitch, Bearings Online, and the Humber Literary Review. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. Renée lives in Chatham, Ontario, and the book is inspired by events that happened there. [non]disclosure published by Second Story Press is her first novel.
https://secondstorypress.ca/collections/renee-d-bondy

Dale Jacobs is the author of Graphic Encounters: Comics and the Sponsorship of Multimodal Literacy (2013) and the co-author (with Heidi LM Jacobs) of 100 Miles of Baseball: Fifty Games, One Summer (2021). His essays have appeared in journals including but not limited to Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, English Journal, College Composition and Communication, Biography, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Journal of Comics and Culture, and Studies in Comics. Dale is the editor of the Myles Horton Reader (2003) and Jeff Lemire: Conversations (2021,) as well as the co-editor of A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies (2003.) He lives in Windsor, Ontario where he is a faculty member in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. His latest book, released this year by Wilfrid Laurier Press, is On Comics and Grief.

https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/O/On-Comics-and-Grief