Christopher Koslowski is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of South Carolina, where he is the blog editor for Yemassee. He has taught creative writing at Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center in Covington, Kentucky and at A.C. Moore Elementary School in Columbia, South Carolina.

Julia Velasco teaches English and Spanish as a second language in Seville, Spain. She earned her MA in English from the University of Cincinnati, and will be an MFA candidate at the University of South Carolina. Her writing has appeared in Delmarva Review.

Justin Brouckaert has taught creative writing at correctional facilities in Saginaw, Michigan, and Columbia, South Carolina. He is an MFA candidate at the University of South Carolina.

Katherine Zlabek’s fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, the Literary Review, and the Rumpus. She won an AWP Intro Journals Award in 2012, and has taught creative writing at Western Michigan University, the University of Cincinnati, and at WordPlay Cincinnati.

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the creative director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and author of two full-length collections. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, 32 Poems, Zone 3, and more. She teaches at the University of Tennessee and serves as the managing editor of Sundress Publications.