Ken Waldman has six full-length poetry collections, a memoir, a children's book, and nine CDs that combine Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry. Since 1994 he's made his living as a freelance writer, teacher, musician, and performer, sometimes touring as Alaska's Fiddling Poet.

Garry Craig Powell's novel-in-stories, Stoning the Devil, is set in the United Arab Emirates and has been longlisted for the Frank O' Connor Award and the Edge Hill Prize. He is an associate professor at the University of Central Arkansas.

Vincent Craig Wright is a short story and song writer from Ashland Oregon. Fiction Writer at Southern Oregon University and cofounder of Institute of New Writing/Ashland, he has recent work in BlazeVox, Sleet magazine, the Harvard Advocate, and a book of stories, Redemption Center.

Will Jennings’s writing has appeared in the Water~Stone Review, River Teeth, the Southern Humanities Review, the Wapsipinicon Almanac, Trapeze, Exchange, Fugue, and ICON magazine. A musician, he has performed on Public Television, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, at SXSW, the CBC, and NPR.