Mary F. Rockcastle is the author of the novels In Caddis Wood and Rainy Lake. She is director of the creative writing programs at Hamline University and executive editor of Water~Stone Review. Her awards include a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in Prose and a Bush Fellowship.

Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of Imaginary Vessels. A Guggenheim fellow, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she edits Mapping Salt Lake City, a community-created web archive that documents the city through maps and critical and creative literature.

Joni Tevis is the author of two books of essays, most recently The World Is on Fire. Her essays have appeared in Orion, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. She teaches at Furman University in Greenville, SC.