Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four volumes of poetry: Dandarians (forthcoming 2014), On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, Year of the Snake, and Beyond Heart Mountain. She directs the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota, and is editor-in-chief of South Dakota Review.

Tiffany Midge won the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for The Woman Who Married a Bear (forthcoming). She has published work  in the Raven Chronicles, Florida Review, South Dakota Review, Shenandoah, and Poetry Northwest, and she is Standing Rock Sioux.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and In Thailand It is Night. His work has appeared in Brevity, the Sun, and North American Review. The editor of Sweet: A Literary Confection, he teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.

Megan Kaminski is the author of one book of poetry, Desiring Map, and six chapbooks of poetry, including This Place and Gemology. She is assistant professor of poetry writing at the University of Kansas, and she also curates the Taproom Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence.

Sean Johnston’s latest book is Listen All You Bullets. He is also the author of All This Town Remembers and A Day Does Not Go By, which won Canada’s ReLit Award for short fiction in 2003. He has a PhD from the University of South Dakota and teaches Writing and Publishing at Okanagan College.