Erika Seay's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Colorado Review, South Carolina Review, New Ohio Review, Cimarron Review, CutBank, and Meridian. She recently received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Arkansas, when she held the Walton Fellowship in Fiction.

Richard Bausch is the author of eleven novels, eight books of stories, and a volume of poems and prose. His twelfth novel, Before, During, After, will appear in Spring 2014.

Robert Bausch is the author of nine novels and a collection of short stories. He has taught at NVCC in Northern Virginia, UVA, Johns Hopkins, George Mason University, American University, and the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus. His newest novel, Far as the Eye Can See is forthcoming in 2014.

Kelly Cherry is the author of twenty-one books, nine chapbooks, and two translations of classical drama. Her most recent poetry collection is The Life and Death of Poetry. She is Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Prof. Emerita in the Humanities at U Wisc.-Madison.

Casey Clabough is the author of eight books, including George Garrett: A Biography. He serves as Literature Editor of Encyclopedia Virginia and Editor of the James Dickey Review. He is a recipient of the Bangladesh International Literary Award and a Brazilian Artists Fellowship, among others.