Michael Knight is the author of two novels, Divining Rod and The Typist; two collections of short stories, Dogfight and Other Stories and Goodnight, Nobody; and a book of novellas, The Holiday Season. He teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of six novels, most recently A Thin Bright Line. Her fiction has won a Yaddo fellowship, the Saturday Evening Post Fiction Prize, the Arts & Letters Prize, a California Arts Council Award, an ALA Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation Writer Fellowships.

Skip Horack is the author of the novels The Eden Hunter and The Other Joseph, as well as the story collection The Southern Cross. His work has appeared in Oxford American, The Southern Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere. He is currently an assistant professor at Florida State.

Celeste McMaster is the 2016 winner of The Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction Contest. She has published fiction and poetry in Short Story, the Dos Passos Review, New Delta Review, and Arkansas Review, among other places. She is an associate professor of English at Charleston Southern University.