David Martin Anderson is the author of over ten novels and novellas, including The Last Good Horse (Trident Media) and the novella-turned-screenplay The Cowboys of Haddington Moor. His novella, Hugger, won the Faulkner-Wisdom Literary Contest in 2021. Since 2023, his work has appeared in sixteen respected literary magazines, including The McNeese Review, Welter (University of Baltimore), Pangyrus Literary Magazine, Sierra Nevada Review, and OX Magazine. A 2023 University of Iowa Creative Writing Program graduate, Anderson now writes short stories and collects award-winning margarita recipes from his ranch in the Texas Hill Country. authordavidmartinanderson@gmail.com

Lynn Domina is the author of several books, including three collections of poetry: Inland Sea, Framed in Silence, and Corporal Works. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Glacier, Moon City Review, Lake Effect, and other periodicals and anthologies. She teaches at Northern Michigan University and lives in Marquette, Mich., along the beautiful shores of Lake Superior. ldomina@nmu.edu

John Gallaher's most recent collection of poetry is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books, 2024). He lives in northwest Missouri and co-edits the Laurel Review. jjgallaher@hotmail.com

Lucinda Kempe's work has been published or is forthcoming in Gooseberry Pie, New Flash Fiction Review, Centaur, The Disappointed Housewife, Unbroken Journal, New South Journal, Southampton Review, and The Summerset Review. An excerpt of her memoir was short listed for the Fish Memoir Prize in April 2021. logirlg@gmail.com

Rachael Lyon's chapbook, The Normal Heart and How It Works, chronicles her experience with a congenital heart defect. She received a Fulbright grant to Vienna, Austria, to translate poetry from German. Her most recent translation project, a tree full of pearl-gray doves (ein baum voll perlgrauer tauben), is a book-length collection of contemporary poetry by Irmgard Löschner. Lyon's poems and essays have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Southern Review, The Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. ral26@psu.edu

Jane C. Miller is the author of Canticle for Remnant Days (2024) and coauthor of Walking the Sunken Boards (2019), both published by Pond Road Press. Her poetry has appeared in RHINO, Colorado Review, UCity Review, and Bear Review, among others. Her honors include the Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest and two state fellowships in poetry. She co-edits the online poetry journal ൪uartet and lives in Wilmington, Del. www.janecmiller.com

A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills has published numerous volumes of poetry, most recently Bodies in Motion: Poems about Dance. His collection, This Miraculous Turning, was awarded the North Carolina Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for its exploration of race and family. His collection, The Holiday Cycle, is forthcoming from Press 53. www.josephrobertmills.com

Katie Mora's fiction has appeared in Orca, Blue Earth Review, Terrain.org, Willows Wept Review, Fatal Flaw, and Gone Lawn. Her poetry has appeared in The Shore, Third Wednesday, and Progenitor. She lives in the Capital Region of New York. katiemora.com

A former carpenter, Dan Murphy teaches at Boston University and the Waring School. He previously served as Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy. His work has appeared in Sugar House Review, The Indianapolis Review, Slipstream, Terrain.org, TAB Journal and elsewhere. Winner of the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, his collection Estate Sale is forthcoming from the University of Utah Press. dmurphy.online/

J.D. Strunk's fiction has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, The Louisville Review, Necessary Fiction, The Coachella Review, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for The Bellingham Review's Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. He lives in Denver, Colorado. Instagram: @jdstrunkwriter

Tim Suermondt's sixth full-length book of poems, A Doughnut And The Great Beauty Of The World, was published in 2023 by MadHat Press. New York Quarterly Books will publish his latest collection, Spring Training In Paris, in 2024. He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poet Lore, Plume, and elsewhere. He lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong. allampoet@earthlink.net

Dana Wall's fiction has appeared in Bending Genres Journal, Mixed Tape Review, and Synkroniciti. She holds an MFA from Goddard College (2020) and combines her background in psychology with her experience as a former CPA to explore the intricate patterns of human relationships. Her work often examines how ordinary moments contain extraordinary revelations about connection and loss. danawall9865@gmail.com

Kenton K. Yee's recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, Cincinnati Review, RHINO, Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction, Plume Poetry, Indianapolis Review, Fairy Tale Review, and Rattle, among others. Kenton writes from Northern California. Instagram: @kentonkyeepoet