Originally from upstate New York, Danielle Bodnar has since settled across the pond in Prague. In the evenings she is often seen reading poetry at multilingual readings or leading her creative writing critique group. Her work has previously been published in Asymmetry, Dissections, and Marrow Magazine, among others, and one of her proudest accomplishments remains a self-published book, The Ostrich Street Anthology, put together with members of her writing group. Her debut novel is indefinitely forthcoming. daniellebodnarwrites.com

Abbie Doll received her MFA from Lindenwood University and is a Fiction Editor at Identity Theory. Her work has been featured in Door Is a Jar Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, and Pinch Journal Online, among others, and has also been longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50. She lives in Columbus, OH. @AbbieDollWrites.

Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His work has been featured in over one hundred and fifty reviews across Canada, Australia, Europe, the UK, USA, and India. When he isn't crafting stories, Marco is a contributing editor for a 'zine called Hotch Potch. In his other life, Marco travels the world with his lovely wife Sabine. www.marcoetheridgefiction.com

Kelle Groom is the author of four poetry collections, Underwater City (University Press of Florida), Luckily, Five Kingdoms, and Spill (Anhinga Press); a memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), a Barnes & Noble Discover selection, and recently, How to Live: A Memoir in Essays (Tupelo Press). Groom's work has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry. www.kellegroom.com

Claire Jean Kim is on the faculty at University of California, Irvine, where she teaches classes on racial justice and human-animal studies. Her poems have been published in or are forthcoming in Rising Phoenix Review, Terrain.org, Tiger Moth Review, Anthropocene, Bracken, The Ilanot Review, Ghost City Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. clairekim727@gmail.com

Sean McFadden writes from Florida, where his University of Michigan degree helps him drive limos along the Gulf of Mexico. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in After Happy Hour Review, The Bookends Review, BULL, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Drunk Monkeys, Dunes Review, and Spotlong Review, among others. seanmcfad@yahoo.com

Kathryn Merwin is the author of Womanskin (CutBank Books). Her work has appeared in The Boiler, Hobart, The Journal, New Ohio, Blackbird, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Western Washington University and has read and/or reviewed for the Adroit Journal, Bellingham Review, and WomenArts Quarterly. kathrynmerwin@outlook.com

Lauren O'Connor is a first-year college student studying global studies and communications at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lauren has a love for both fiction and nonfiction writing, and is excited to start sharing her voice with readers. This is her second publication. laurenlaney07@gmail.com

William Palmer's poetry has appeared in American Literary Review, Ecotone, I-70 Review, JAMA, ONE ART, Poetry East, Salamander, and elsewhere. A retired professor of English at Alma College, he lives in Traverse City, Michigan. palmer@alma.edu

Margaret Ries is an Edinburgh-based writer. She has had several short stories published. Most recently, "I am a Stone" appeared in The Zodiac Review and "Boxed" in LIT 38. Her first novel was one of three finalists of the 2016 Dundee International Book Prize. Her second novel was longlisted in Mslexia's 2015 novel competition prize. She is currently at work on a novel that involves one murder and two sets of identical twins. She lived in Berlin for thirteen years before moving to Edinburgh in 2006. Margaret earns her keep by running creative-writing clubs for children and teenagers. margaret.ries@gmail.com

Gail Thomas has published six books, most recently Leaving Paradise, and her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies. Awards include the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press for Odd Mercy, Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book's "Must Read" for Waving Back. She teaches poetry and offers coaching for Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshops, and she supports immigrant and refugee families in Western Massachusetts. www.gailthomaspoet.com/

Robin Turner's poems, prose poems, and flash fiction appear in numerous publications, among them Pithead Chapel, Rattle, Rust & Moth, The Texas Observer, and Bracken Magazine. Her chapbooks are bindweed & crow poison (Porkbelly Press) and Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay Books). She lives in Dallas, Texas. robinsmithturner@gmail.com

Matthew Zhao is a Chinese American writer from Michigan. His first poetry collection, King of Song, was a finalist in the National Poetry Series, a semifinalist in The Word Works Washington Prize, and longlisted in the Lost Horse Press Idaho Prize. His poetry recently appears in Mississippi Review, swamp pink, Four Way Review, and Frontier Poetry. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and MFA from Florida State University. mattzhao@umich.edu