Erik Anderson is the regional trade editor at the University of Minnesota Press.

Sarah Stonich's These Granite Islands was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers title, translated into eight languages. Her second novel, The Ice Chorus, was followed by an award-winning memoir, Shelter. Her volume of linked stories, Vacationland, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.

Kate Hopper is the author of Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood and Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers. She teaches writing online and at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant.  

Karen Babine is the author of Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life and editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Her work has appeared in River Teeth, Ascent, North Dakota Quarterly, and Fugue. She is Assistant Professor of English at Concordia College.