Emilie Cohen is a born-and-raised New Yorker, and a born-and-raised Yankee fan. She reads and writes Young Adult fiction, mostly because she has the mental age of a sixteen-year-old. This is her first time reading her work in public, and she is humbled and terrified.

Regan Fad wrote stories all the time when she was a child. Somewhere along the way she stopped for reasons she can’t quite remember and a few years back she started writing again for reasons she can’t quite articulate. She practices law to make a living and shares her home on the upper west side with a disdainful cat.

Mary Cool has been editor in chief of Ducts literary magazine and host of the Trumpet Fiction reading series since 2015. Here are three facts about her that may or may not be true: she lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, has one-and-a-half children, and detests most forms of ice cream (gelato is acceptable).