Lisa Norris is a professor at Central Washington University. Her story collections are Toy Guns and Women Who Sleep with Animals, winners of the Willa Cather and SFASU Fiction Prizes, respectively. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in Shenandoah, Ascent, Terrain.org, and others.

Shann Ray is the author of American Masculine: Stories; the nonfiction book, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity; Balefire: Poems; and the novel, American Copper. His work has been honored with an American Book Award, and an NEA Literature Fellowship. He teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University

Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Safe as Houses and 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas, was the 2018 Frank O'Connor International Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. O. Henry Award and Pushcart Prize winner, her third book, Parakeet, will be published in 2020. She teaches at NYU and IAIA.

Toni Jensen

Angela Trudell Vasquez