John Thomson is the author of A Small Boat at the Bottom of the Sea. His stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including Collateral, Terrain, The Raven’s Perch, and others. His story “Out of Good Ground” won Terrain’s 2018 prize for fiction. He has worked as a government wildlife biologist and as a land steward for a nonprofit land trust in Northern California, where he and his wife live close to their two grown daughters.

Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a native Chicagoan. She is the author of Roofwalker, The Grass Dancer, and Sacred Wilderness. She received an A.B. from Harvard/Radcliffe, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has been published in Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Voice Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, Story, and The Best American Short Stories 1993.

Pamela Fletcher has taught at the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, and the Loft Literary Center. Her essays have appeared in The Utne Reader, Colors, and The Hungry Mind Review.