Mark Brazaitis is the author of seven books, including The Incurables: Stories, winner of the 2012 Richard Sullivan Prize, and The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, winner of the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction Award. He is a professor of English at West Virginia University.

Shara McCallum is the author most recently of The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems and This Strange Land. She has received a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and an NEA Fellowship for Poetry. McCallum teaches and directs the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University.

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Jon Tribble teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he is the series editor of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry published by Southern Illinois University Press and the managing editor of Crab Orchard Review.

MIchael Czyzniejewski is the author of three collections of stories: I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories, Chicago Stories, and Elephants in Our Bedroom. He teaches at Missouri State University, where he edits Moon City Review. In 2010, he received an NEA Fellowship in fiction.