Leah McCormack's stories have appeared in Redivider, Prairie Fire, and RE:AL. An AWP Intro Awards nominee, she has served as editorial assistant for the Cincinnati Review and Fiction.

Dietrik Vanderhill has taught writing, literature, and composition at these schools and Kansas state prisons. He has worked as editor of Mikrokosmos, editorial intern for Oxford American, and editorial assistant for Cincinnati Review.

Tessa Mellas's debut story collection Lungs Full of Noise won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize. She is the Distinguished Visiting Fiction Writer at Bowling Green State University this spring.

Peter Grimes (PhD, MFA) is Assistant Professor of English at Dickinson State University, where he teaches multi-genre creative writing and directs the visiting writers series. His fiction appears in journals such as Narrative, Mississippi Review, Mid-American Review, and Cream City Review.

Suzanne Warren (PhD, MFA) teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Puget Sound, Washington. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Versal, which nominated her flash fiction "The Reindeer Daughter" for a Pushcart Prize.