Allen Gee’s essays have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, South Loop Review, Lumina, and elsewhere. He’s been a Yaddo fellow and is currently an Associate Professor at Georgia College & State University, where he edits fiction and creative nonfiction for Arts & Letters.

Ann McCutchan's books include River Music: An Atchafalaya Story and Circular Breathing: Meditations From a Musical Life. She is Associate Professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas and editor of the American Literary Review.

Peter Selgin’s Drowning Lessons won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award. His memoir, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, was short-listed for the William Saroyan Prize. His nonfiction has been featured in Best American Essays. He teaches at Antioch University and at Georgia College & State University.

Margaret MacInnis’s essays have appeared in Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. Her essays were named notable by Best American Essays 2007, 2009, 2011. She was the 2007 William Raney Scholar in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf.

Emily Fox Gordon has published two memoirs, one novel, and a collection of personal essays, Book of Days. She has received two Pushcart Prizes and is a member of the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.