April Ossmann is author of Event Boundaries and Anxious Music, recipient of a 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and former Executive Director of Alice James Books. She is on the low-res MFA faculty at Sierra Nevada College and is an independent poetry editor. Here website is www.aprilossmann.com.

Karen Brennan, PhD, is the author of seven books of varying genres including AWP Award-winning short fiction, Wild Desire, the memoir, Being with Rachel, and the 2016 story collection, Monsters. A professor emerita at the University of Utah, she teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Jen Levitt is the author of The Off-Season. She lives in New York City and teaches high school students.

Grace Bonner is a MacDowell fellow and the former director of the 92Y Poetry Center. Round Lake is her first book of poetry. She has taught English and creative writing at the Pierrepont School and abroad. She is a mentor in PEN’s Prison Writing Program.

Nathan McClain