Jeb A. Herrin is a graduate of the University of Tennessee where he studied creative writing. He was a medic with the 3rd Infantry Division during Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn. He currently serves as editorial assistant for Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Karen Skolfield’s book Frost in the Low Areas won a first book award and the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow and an editor at Sundress Publications. Skolfield teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Vicki Hudson holds a MFA from St. Mary's College. Her narrative essays and poetry reflect experiences as a soldier and disabled veteran with several wartime tours of duty and her perspective as one of the first out LGBT unit commanders. She often merges text with images to create visual stories.

Soul Vang is the author of To Live Here and coeditor of How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology. He is an editorial board member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle (HAWC).