Edward Belfar is the author of a collection of short stories called Wanderers, which was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2012. His fiction has also appeared in numerous literary journals, including Shenandoah, The Baltimore Review, Potpourri, Confrontation, Natural Bridge, and Tampa Review. He lives in Maryland with his wife, Kathleen, and his Corgi, Pepin, and works as a writer and editor.

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of The Mad Feast and Preparing the Ghost, which was reviewed on the front-page of the New York Times Book Review, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice, an NPR Notable Book, and a New Yorker Book to Watch Out For. He is also the author of two other nonfiction books, and three books of poetry. His new nonfiction book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers (about, among other things, the ways in which carrier pigeons are used by diamond smuggling rings) came out this February 2021. His work appears widely in journals, magazines and anthologies, including The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Guernica, The New Republic, Iowa Review, and The Best American Essays. He teaches creative writing and lives in Marquette, Michigan.

Kevin Carey has published four books – a chapbook of fiction, The Beach People (Red Bird Chapbooks) and three books of poetry from CavanKerry Press, The One Fifteen to Penn Station, Jesus Was a Homeboy which was selected as an Honor Book for the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize, and the recently released Set in Stone (2020). Kevin is also a filmmaker and playwright. His latest documentary film, Unburying Malcolm Miller, about a deceased Salem, MA poet, premiered at the Mass Poetry Festival in 2016 and his latest stage play “The Stand or Sal is Dead” a murder mystery comedy, premiered in Newburyport, MA. at The Actor’s Studio in June of 2018. Murder in the Marsh (Darkstroke Books) his first crime novel was released in October 2020.

Frannie Lindsay’s sixth volume, The Snow's Wife, was released this fall by Cavankerry Press. Her previous titles are If Mercy, Our Vanishing, Mayweed, Lamb, and Where She Always Was. Her honors include the Benjamin Saltman Award, the Washington Prize, the May Swenson Award, and the Missouri Review Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Lindsay is widely published in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Field, Plume, and The Adroit Journal. It also appears in The Best American Poetry 2014. She teaches workshops on the poetry of grief and trauma. She is a classical pianist.