Kevin Clark’s Self-Portrait with Expletives won the Pleiades contest. His book In the Evening of No Warning earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets. Winner of the Angoff Award, he has had work in Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, and the Georgia, Iowa, and Southern reviews.

Jennifer Culkin recently published A Final Arc of Sky, a chronicle of her life as an emergency flight nurse in the northwest. A former student of Judith Kitchen, past nonfiction editor of Crab Creek Review, and a Jaffe Foundation Award winner, her essays have appeared in many literary magazines.

Marjorie Sandor has written four books, including the recent memoir, The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction. She’s won the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and the Oregon Book Award for Nonfiction. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, her work has twice appeared in Best American Short Stories.

Gabriel Blackwell is the author of three books of prose, including, most recently, The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men. His fictions and essays have appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions, and Puerto del Sol. He teaches creative writing at Willamette University.

Stephen Corey is the editor of the Georgia Review, for which he has worked in various roles since 1983. He is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently There Is No Finished World. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in a range of periodicals since 1975.