Luke Rolfes teaches writing and literature at Northwest Missouri State University. His fiction and nonfiction appear in literary journals around the country, and he is a past winner of the Robert C. Wright and Iron Horse Discovered Voices Award.

Nancy A. Parkes is a member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College, where she teaches Writing, Journalism, Sustainability Studies, and Public Policy. She was an award-winning journalist and writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Kristine Somerville’s visual and “found text” features appear regularly in the Missouri Review. Her short stories, nonfiction, and prose poems have been published in a variety of magazines, including the North American Review, Passages North, Quarterly West, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets.

Richard Sonnenmoser is the co-editor of the Laurel Review. He's had fiction and poetry published in Harvard Review, West Branch, Permafrost, Crab Orchard Review, and MAYDAY magazine. His poetry chapbook, Science- Magic School, won the 2010 Midnight Sun Poetry Chapbook contest.

Jenny Yang Cropp is the author of the chapbook, Hanging the Moon. She received her MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University - Mankato and is finishing a PhD in English at the University of South Dakota where she serves as an associate editor for South Dakota Review.