HEIDI JULAVITS (New Fiction Confab, 2012)
Heidi Julavits is the co-founder and co-editor of The Believer Magazine, and is the author of The Mineral Palace, The Effect of Living Backwards, The Uses of Enchantment, and, most recently, The Vanishers.

PETER ORNER (New Fiction Confab, 2012)
Orner’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, The Forward, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Ploughshares. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize. Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship (2007-2008). Orner’s third book, Love and Shame and Love, was published by Little, Brown in 2011.