Martha Perkins developed a writing degree at Olivet College in 2009. She earned graduate degrees in the creative writing programs at the University of East Anglia and the University of Houston, and she has published short stories and novel excerpts in the United Kingdom.

Chris Haven has published fiction and poetry in journals including Threepenny Review, Arts & Letters, Seneca Review, Crab Orchard Review, Versal, and Blackbird. He teaches at Grand Valley State University in Michigan where he edits Wake: Great Lakes Thought & Culture.

Beth Johnstone Myers has been a professor in the English Department at Adrian College for over thirty years. Although she writes in several genres, for now she considers herself a teacher, not a writer.

L.S. Klatt's first collection of poems, Interloper, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry. His second book, Cloud of Ink, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. His lyric poem “Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies At 91” was anthologized in Best American Poetry 2011 and made into a 90-second animated film.

Pablo Peschiera has published poems, interviews, and reviews in Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Forklift: Ohio, Diagram, and Gulf Coast. His translations from Spanish have appeared in Herencia. He teaches at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, where he directs the Visiting Writers Series.