Jeff Minton is a musician and writer who teaches English at Elizabethtown College and guitar lessons from his basement bandroom. His fiction was a recent finalist for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award.

Joseph J. Schwartzburt, a recent recipient of the Wilkes-Etruscan Prize (judged by William Heyen) and Wilkes University MFA creative writing graduate, is currently editing his first novel. He has read original works for Seersucker Live: A Literary Performance in Savannah, Georgia.

Nancy McKinley, writer of fiction and narrative nonfiction, teaches in the low-res MFA at Wilkes University. Her novel, Travels with a Nuclear Whore, won the creative component of the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, and she received the John Gardner Newhouse Award.

Zach Powers is a writer and musician with stories featured in publications across the country. His writing for television won an Emmy, and he was nominated for best original music composition. He is the founder of the literary arts nonprofit Seersucker Live (SeersuckerLive.com).