Greg Bottoms is an essayist and story writer. He is the author of two memoirs, Lowest White Boy (2019) and Angelhead (2000), an Esquire Magazine “Book of the Year;” two books of essays 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, Esquire, Harper’s, 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.
James Brown is the author of several books, including the memoirs Apology to the Young Addict and The Los Angeles Diaries. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, GQ, Ploughshares, and The New England Review. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Nelson Algren Literary Award in short fiction.
Marianne Jay Erhardt teaches writing at Wake Forest University. Her work appears in Oxford American, Michigan Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, phoebe, and Ninth Letter.
Jessica Franken is an essayist and poet living in Minneapolis. Her nonfiction is published or forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction Sunday Short Reads, phoebe, under the gum tree, The Cincinnati Review, Complete Sentence, and elsewhere. Visit her website at jessicafranken.com.
Jason Goldsmith is Associate Professor of English and program director of the Visiting Writers Series at Butler University in Indianapolis.
Richard Goodman is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, The Soul of Creative Writing, A New York Memoir, and The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorker’s Journey Through 9/11. He is co-editor of The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing that will be published in Spring 2021 by the University Press of Florida. Richard has written for The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, Chautauqua, Vanity Fair, Ascent, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. He is an associate professor of creative nonfiction writing at University of New Orleans. His website is http://www.richardgoodman.org.
Nicole Graev Lipson’s essays and journalism have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Hudson Review, Hippocampus, Crab Creek Review, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among other publications. Her work has been selected as a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays and has appeared in the anthology Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she is working on a collection of essays about motherhood. She can be reached at http://www.nicolegraevlipson.com.
Shamecca Harris is a New York-based creative writer and teaching artist. She is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at The City College of New York where she also teaches English Literature and Composition. Her essays, reportage, and experimental writing have appeared in The Rumpus, Pank Magazine, and Apogee Journal among others.
Rick Rees currently lives and writes in Portland, Oregon, though Georgia is often on his mind. He is just finishing a stint as English Department Chair at Oregon Episcopal School. Previous work appeared in The Sewanee Review.
Abigail Thomas has four children, twelve grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Her books include Safekeeping; A Three Dog Life; and What Comes Next and How to Like It. She lives in Woodstock, NY with her two dogs.
Emily Waples lives in Northeast Ohio, where she is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Humanities and Director of the Center for Literature and Medicine at Hiram College. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, and Gordon Square Review.
