Henk Rossouw

Henk Rossouw's book-length poem Xamissa, published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize. Best American Experimental Writing 2018, out from Wesleyan University Press, featured an excerpt. The African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books included his chapbook The Water Archives in the 2018 boxed set New-Generation African Poets. Poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Boston Review, among other publications. Originally from Cape Town, Henk earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a PhD from the University of Houston, where he served as a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. Currently, he is an associate editor for Tupelo Quarterly.

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John McNally

John McNally is author or editor of fourteen books, including three novels: After the Workshop, The Book of Ralph and America's Report Card; two story collections, Troublemakers (winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and the Nebraska Book Award) and Ghosts of Chicago (a Chicagoland Indie Bestseller and voted one of the top twenty fiction books of 2008 by readers of The Believer); and two nonfiction books: The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist and Vivid and Continuous: Essays on the Craft of Fiction, both published the University of Iowa Press. John's work has appeared in over a hundred publications, including The Washington Post, The Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, and Virginia Quarterly Review. His fiction and nonfiction have been anthologized in Long Story Short (University of North Carolina Press), New Sudden Fiction (Norton), Don't You Forget about Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes (Simon Spotlight), Winding Roads: Essays in Writing Creative Nonfiction (Longman), and Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft (Longman), among others. He has a screenplay for a feature length movie in development with the producer Winter's Bone. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and the recipient of fellowships from Paramount Pictures (Chesterfield Writer's Film Project), the University of Iowa (James Michener Award), George Washington University (Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship). John began teaching fiction writing in 1989.

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Dayana Stetco

Dayana Stetco is a Professor of English and Department Head at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her trilogy of plays, The Falling, was released by Yellow Flag Press in 2016. Her book, Seducing Velasquez and Other Plays, appeared from Ahadada Books in 2009. A finalist in the national playwriting competition sponsored by the Repertory Theatre Foundation, she has had plays produced in the U.S., her native country, Romania, and the UK. Her fiction, plays, essays, and translations have appeared in Requited, Two Lines, Packingtown Review, BathHouse Hypermedia Journal, Spelk, Emergency Almanac, Metrotimes, Eleven Eleven, Masque & Spectacle, and others. She is the Artistic Director of The Milena Group, an interdisciplinary physical theatre ensemble she formed in 2000. To date, the group has produced 15 original plays (www.milenagroup.blogspot.com).

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Sadie Hoagland

Sadie Hoagland is the author the story collection American Grief in Four Stages (WVU Press) and the forthcoming novel, Strange Children, from Red Hen Press. She has a PhD in fiction from the University of Utah and an MA in Creative Writing/Fiction from UC Davis. Her fiction has appeared in The Alice Blue Review, The Black Herald, Mikrokosmos Journal, South Dakota Review, Sakura Review, Grist Journal, Oyez Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. She is a former editor of Quarterly West, and currently teaches fiction at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her work can be read at sadiehoagland.com

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Charles Richard

Charles E. Richard writes and teaches nonfiction. He also directs the Center for Moving Image Arts, an interdisciplinary institution at UL designed to facilitate faculty and student collaboration across the curriculum in producing new works of research and creative expression in moving image media. "Moving Image Arts" refers broadly to forms of creativity and scholarship that utilize motion pictures, such as drama, documentaries, animations, computer games, interactive media, experimental video, and so forth. Richard coordinates the University's Moving Image Arts Program, a new interdisciplinary major. His work includes over a dozen nationally distributed documentary films, earning recognitions such as "Best Historical Documentary" twice at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival and the prestigious "DuPont Columbia Award," television's equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize. At UL Lafayette, he supervises several collaborative student media projects and works closely with the Center for Louisiana Studies, where he serves as a Fellow with the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism. Professor Richard was named University Distinguished Professor for 2014.

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Jessica Alexander

Jessica Alexander earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Fiction Writing from the University of Utah in 2016. She held a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Franklin & Marshall College from 2016-2018. Her story collection, Dear Enemy, was the winning manuscript in the 2016 Subito Prose Contest, as judged by Selah Saterstrom. Her fiction has been published in journals such as The Offbeat, Psychopomp Magazine, LIT, Fence, Black Warrior Review, PANK, Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, and DIAGRAM, among other places. She has given talks on the influence of theory on creative practice, queer desire in gothic fiction, and the serious work of a queer comic vision—all interests that inform her creative projects and invigorate her teaching practice.

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