Christie Towers is a poet living in the Boston area. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and is currently pursuing her M.Div at Boston University. Her work can be found online and elsewhere. She is currently working on a series of poems based on the visions of Hildegard von Bingen.
Sara Pirkle is the author of The Disappearing Act, which won the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry and was published by Mercer University Press in 2018. Her poems have been published in Rattle, Reed, Entropy, TAB, The Raintown Review, Emrys, and Atticus Review, among others. In 2019, she was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, and in 2020, her short story, "Word Problems" won first place in the Chestnut Review's Stubborn Writers Contest. Sara has received writing fellowships from The Anderson Center, I-Park Foundation, and The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. She is the Assistant Director of Creative Writing at The University of Alabama, where she also hosts the Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series.
Caroline Earleywine teaches high school English in Central Arkansas where she tries to convince teenagers that poetry is actually cool. She was a semifinalist for Nimrod’s 2018 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and for the 2019 Vinyl 45s Chapbook Contest. She was also a finalist for the 2019 Write Bloody Publishing Contest. Her work can be found in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Barrelhouse, Nailed Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Queens University in Charlotte and lives in Little Rock with her wife and two dogs. Her chapbook, Lesbian Fashion Struggles, is out now with Sibling Rivalry Press.
Mickey Dubrow is the author of American Judas. For over thirty years, he wrote television promos, marketing presentations, and scripts for various clients including Cartoon Network, TNT Latin America, Tribune Media, and McGraw Hill. His short stories and essays have appeared in Prime Number Magazine, The Signal Mountain Review, Full Grown People, and McSweeny’s Internet Tendency.