Jeremy B. Jones is the author of Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland. His essays have been named notable in Best American Essays and appear in Oxford American, the Iowa Review, and Brevity, among others. He teaches creative writing at Western Carolina University.

Justin Nobel is a freelance magazine journalist. His stories have been republished in Best American Travel Writing 2011 and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014. Presently, he's at work on a book about a New Orleans wrongful conviction and a book of tales about the weather.

Stephen J. West is currently at work on a book-length essay about a private investigator embroiled in corruption in West Virginia. He is the writer in residence at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY.

Catina Bacote’s nonfiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Sun, the Common, Heart and Soul, and the Southern California Review. She wrote a viewing guide to the documentary Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings. She is a professor at Warren Wilson College.

Wendy Call