Beth Alvarado is the author of three books, Anxious Attachments (forthcoming, Autumn House Press, 2019), Anthropologies: A Family Memoir (University of Iowa Press), and Not a Matter of Love and other stories (Winner of the Many Voices Project Prize, New Rivers Press). Beth has lived in the Sonoran Borderlands for most of her life. She now lives in Bend, Oregon, where she teaches prose at the Oregon State University-Cascades low-residency MFA program. Her essays and stories have been published in many fine journals including Guernica, The Sun, The Southern Review, Eleven Eleven, Necessary Fiction, Ploughshares, The Collagist, WHR, and The Drunken Boat’s Librotraícante Portfolio.
Iver Arnegard’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in the North American Review, Gulf Coast, the Missouri Review, and elsewhere. In 2014 his first book, Whip & Spur, won the Gold Line Press Fiction Award. He lives and works in Talkeetna, Alaska. Read more of his writing at iverarnegard.com.
Greg Bottoms is a writer of literary nonfiction and fiction. He is the author of a memoir, Angelhead (2000), an Esquire Magazine “Book of the Year,” two books about American outsider artists, The Colorful Apocalypse (2007) and Spiritual American Trash (2013), and four prose collections, Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks (2001), Fight Scenes (2008), Swallowing the Past (2011), and Pitiful Criminals (2014). His work has appeared in Agni, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Mississippi Review, North American Review, Oxford American, Seattle Review, Shenandoah, Texas Review, Witness, and numerous other literary journals and magazines. He teaches creative writing at the University of Vermont, where he is a Professor of English.
Ryan Brod is a senior contributor for The Drake magazine. His writing has also appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal and Stonefly, among others. A Maine fishing guide and filmmaker, he lives in Portland.
Earl Fendelman is pleased to witness the first publication of his writing in over forty years. After a very happy career teaching at Lehman College, CUNY, he lives with his wife in New York City, where, among other things, he continues to write.
Vivé Griffith is an Austin-based writer, educator, and student advocate. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The Sun, Oxford American, Hippocampus, and Gettysburg Review, and her op-eds in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Texas Tribune. She teaches storytelling to activists, poetry to adult students returning to the classroom, and creative nonfiction at Austin Community College. Find her at www.vivegriffith.com.
Richard Hoffman is author of the memoirs Half the House (Harcourt Brace; New Rivers Press) and Love & Fury (Beacon Press), and the poetry collections Without Paradise (Cedar Hill Books), Gold Star Road (Barrow Street Press, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club), Emblem (Barrow Street Press), and most recently Noon until Night (Barrow Street Press). A fiction writer as well, he published Interference & Other Stories (New Rivers Press) in 2009. A former Chair of PEN New England, he is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College and an adjunct assistant professor of nonfiction in the graduate program at Columbia University.
Sydney Lea, a former Pulitzer finalist, founded and for thirteen years edited New England Review. His thirteenth collection of poems, Here, is due from Four Way Books next year. Likewise, Vermont’s Green Writers Press will soon publish The Music of What Happens: Lyric and Everyday Life, his collected newspaper columns from his years (2011-15) as Vermont Poet Laureate. In summer of 2018, Green Writers Press re-issued his collaborative book of essays with former Delaware laureate Fleda Brown, Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives.
Jake Maynard’s writing appears in recent or forthcoming issues of Fugue, Permafrost, Appalachian Heritage, Carolina Quarterly, and others. A former rural social worker, he studied creative writing at West Virginia University and currently teaches composition at Penn State.
Seth Sawyers’ work has appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Rumpus, Salon, Literary Hub, The Millions, Sports Illustrated, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. He writes essays and is working on a novel. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and is an editor at Baltimore Review.
Holly Willis teaches in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She writes frequently about experimental film, video, and new media, while also exploring experimental nonfiction, creative critical writing, and poetry. She is currently working on a series of text-based videos, and her work has appeared in publications such as Film Comment, Afterimage, ArtWeek, and carte blanche.
Ash Whitman is a Washington State native who currently resides in Virginia with her husband. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University and is currently working on a collection of essays. Her work will appear in a forthcoming issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.
