Avery Cassell, writer, poet, cartoonist, grandpa, and artist

Wayne Hoffman, journalist, activist, columnist, managing editor at Tablet Magazine

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, poet, reviewer, and editor-in-chief at Foglifter

Vincent Meis, ESL educator, travel writer, reviewer

Julian Shendelman, contributing editor at the University of Pennsylvania and Trans advocate

Christian Baines, Australian-born self-proclaimed awkward nerd who writes the gay paranormal series “The Arcadia Trust.” He stays in Toronto when he can’t find his passport

[Recorded at Saints + Sinners in New Orleans]

Lara Zielinsky, reviewer, short-story writer, award-winning novelist