Terry Ann Thaxton has published two poetry books, Getaway Girl and The Terrible Wife, as well as Creative Writing in the Community: A Guide. Her writing appears in Defunct, the Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, and other journals. She is a professor at the University of Central Florida.

Debra Brenegan is the author of the novel Shame the Devil, and her short fiction and poetry have been widely published in national literary journals. She directs the MA writing program at Mount Mary University and codirects Untold Stories, a writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence.

Lee Gulyas writes poetry and nonfiction that have appeared in journals such as Tinderbox, Literary Mama, Sweet, Full Grown People, the Los Angeles Review, and Redivider. She teaches at Western Washington University, and she is lead faculty for WWU’s Service-Learning Study Abroad Program to Rwanda.

Joanna Eleftheriou teaches creative wriing at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, which offers a masters degre in literature to incarcerated men in a Texas state prison. Her translations, fiction, essays, and poetry appear in journals including Arts & Letters, Chautauqua, and Crab Orchard Review.