Lydia Ship’s stories and poems have appeared in American Short Fiction, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. She won the New Delta Review's 2012 Matt Clark Prize in Fiction and she is managing editor of the Chattahoochee Review.

Anthony Varallo is the author of This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, and Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His third story collection, Think of Me and I’ll Know, was published in 2013.

Amina Gautier is the author of the short-story collection At-Risk, which won the 2010 Flannery O’Connor Award. Her fiction appears in Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and Southern Review, and has received honors from Breadloaf, Ucross, and Sewanee Writer¹s Conference.

Cara Blue Adams spent five years on the editorial staff of the Southern Review before joining the creative writing faculty at Coastal Carolina University. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the VCCA. Her fiction appears in Narrative, the Missouri Review, and the Sun.