Lorraine M. López, an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review, teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of six books of fiction and editor of three essay collections. Her most recent publication is The Darling, a novel.

Kathryn Locey is professor of English at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in such places as Copperfield Review, Staccato, Able Muse, Paper Nautilus, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Lynn Pruett's publications include the novel Ruby River, and stories and essays in Michigan Quarterly Review, Border Crossing, Southern Exposure, Arts & Letters, and Angle of Vision among others. She's been awarded the Al Smith Fellowship, the Joanna Scott Award, and a residency at Yaddo.

Blas Falconer is the author of The Foundling Wheel and A Question of Gravity and Light. He is the poetry editor for the Los Angeles Review and teaches in the low-residency MFA at Murray State University. His third poetry collection, Forgive the Body This Failure, is forthcoming.

Teresa Dovalpage is a bilingual writer and author of eleven published books. Among her novels are A Girl like Che Guevara, Habanera, and Muerte de un murciano en La Habana, a runner-up for the Herralde Award in Spain. She currently writes for Taos News and teaches at UNM-Taos.