Christine M. Lasek is the academic professional for the University of Georgia creative writing program. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in print and online literary magazines and her short story collection, Love Letters to Michigan, was recently published.

Ed Pavlić is the author of seven collections of poems and two critical texts. His newest works are Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, The Lyric and the Listener, Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno, and Visiting Hours at the Color Line. He teaches at the University of Georgia.

Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His six books of poems are Little Star, Tasker Street, Selfwolf, Jab, Keep This Forever, and most recently, Thresherphobe.

Derek Nikitas is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. A fiction writer and Edgar Award nominee, he has published the novels Pyres, The Long Division, and Extra Life. He has also cowritten three novellas with bestselling author James Patterson.

Michael Mejia is the author of Forgetfulness. He has received grants from the NEA and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. A cofounding editor of Ninebark Press and editor in chief of Western Humanities Review, he teaches creative writing at the University of Utah.