Gregory Donovan is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Torn from the Sun, as well as Calling His Children Home. He directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is also senior editor of the online journal Blackbird.

Kathleen Graber is the author of two collections of poetry, The Eternal City and Correspondence. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University and the low residency MFA Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Clint McCown is the author of eight books. He teaches in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA program.

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is author of Descanso For My Father: Fragments Of A Life. His award-winning essays have appeared in numerous journals including New Letters, Fourth Genre, and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Sheri Reynolds is the author of six novels: Bitterroot Landing, The Rapture of Canaan, A Gracious Plenty, Firefly Cloak, The Sweet In-Between, and The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb. She teaches at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where she holds the Morgan Chair of Southern Literature.