Kris Bigalk is the author of the poetry collection Repeat the Flesh in Numbers. Her awards include Minnesota State Arts Board grants in poetry and a residency at Banfll-Locke Center for the Arts. She serves as Director of Creative Writing at Normandale Community College.

Denise Hill is an associate professor of English and current English Division Chair at Delta College in Michigan. She is also editor-in-chief of NewPages.com and a long-standing member of the AWP Two-Year College Caucus.

Amy Fladeboe is an emerging fiction writer who has just completed her first novel. She received her MFA from Minnesota State University-Mankato in 2013. During her studies, she taught composition and creative writing at MSU and served as a teaching assistant at Normandale Community College.