Jessica Lee Anderson is the author of Calli, Border Crossing, and Trudy, winner of the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature.

Kevin Prufer has authored, most recently, the poetry collections The Fears, The Art of Fiction, How He Loved Them, and In a Beautiful Country.

Wayne Miller has authored six poetry collections, most recently The End of Childhood and We the Jury.

Travis Kurowski is the editor of Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award and a Foreword IndieFab Award.

Faith Sullivan is the author of many novels, including Gardenias, The Cape Ann, What a Woman Must Do, and, most recently, Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse. An indefatigable champion of literary culture and her fellow writers, she has visited with hundreds of book clubs and lives in Minneapolis.

Adam Clay is the author of five collections of poems: Circle Back, To Make Room for the Sea, Stranger, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World, and The Wash.

Formerly a park ranger, factory worker, and seller of cemetary plots, Joni Tevis is the author of two collections of essays: The World is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse, a Kirkus Best Book of 2015, and The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory.