Randon Billings Noble is an essayist. Her collection Be with Me Always and anthology A Harp in the Stars were published by the University of Nebraska Press. She is the founding editor of the online literary magazine After the Art and teaches in West Virginia Wesleyan’s Low-Residency MFA Program and Goucher's MFA in Nonfiction Program.
Amy Bowers is a Florida native currently living in Connecticut with her family. Her writing explores domestic culture, the insect and natural worlds, and manufactured places and spaces. She is currently working on an essay collection about growing up in Central Florida among amusement parks, alligators, and hurricanes. She holds an mfa from Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has been published in Bella Grace, Mabel Magazine, [pank], and Centered.
Chelsey Clammer is the author of the award-winning essay collection, Circadian (Red Hen Press, 2017) and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Hobart, Brevity, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Normal School and Black Warrior Review. She teaches online writing classes with WOW! Women On Writing and is a freelance editor. Her next collection of essays, Human Heartbeat Detected, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.
Davon Loeb is the author of the memoir, The In-Betweens (West Virginia University Press, 2022). He earned an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers-Camden University. Davon is an assistant features editor at The Rumpus. His work is featured at Catapult, The Rumpus, Ploughshares Blog, PANK Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, CRAFT Literary, and elsewhere. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Besides writing, Davon is a high school English teacher, husband, and father living in New Jersey.
Curtis Smith has published more than a hundred stories and essays, and his work has been cited by or appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Spiritual Writing, The Best Short Fictions, and the Norton anthology New Micros. His thirteenth book, The Magpie’s Return, was released last year.