Jeremy B. Jones is the author of the memoir Bearwallow. His essays appear in Oxford American, The Iowa Review, Brevity, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of English at Western Carolina University, and is the series coeditor of In Place, a book series from WVU Press.

Rebecca McClanahan’s ten books include The Tribal Knot, a multigenerational memoir, and Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively. Recipient of a Pushcart prize and the Glasgow Award in nonfiction, she teaches in the MFA programs of Rainier Writing Workshop and Queens University.

Kiki Petrosino is an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she directs the creative writing program. She has authored three books of poetry: Witch Wife, Fort Red Border, and Hymn for the Black Terrific. She is coeditor of Transom, an online poetry journal.

Jessica Handler is the author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing Through Grief and Loss, and Invisible Sisters: A Memoir. Her nonfiction has appeared widely, including Tin House, Creative Nonfiction, The Bitter Southerner, Assay magazine, Drunken Boat, and The Chattahoochee Review.