Michele Morano is the author of Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain and of fiction and creative nonfiction published in many venues, including Best American Essays, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Boulevard, and Ninth Letter. She chairs the English Department at DePaul University in Chicago.

Cathy Day is the author of two books: The Circus in Winter and Comeback Season. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Lit Hub, PANK, The Millions, and Inside Higher Education. She teaches at Ball State University where she currently serves as the department chair.

Joanna Eleftheriou teaches at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the Writing Workshops in Greece. Her translations, fiction, essays, and poetry appear in journals including Arts & Letters, Chautauqua, and Crab Orchard Review.

John T. Price is the award-winning author of three memoirs, including Daddy Long Legs:The Natural Education of a Father and Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships, and editor of The Tallgrass Prairie Reader. He is director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Steve Heller is Chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles, whose mission includes the education of literary artists, community engagement, and the pursuit of social, economic, and environmental justice. He is the author of four books and 60+ stories and essays.