Fleda Brown’s The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems will be out from University of Nebraska Press in 2017. Her eighth collection of poems, No Need of Sympathy (BOA Editions, LTD) and her collection of essays with Sydney Lea, Growing Old in Poetry (Autumn House Press) came out in 2013. Her memoir is Driving With Dvořák (University of Nebraska Press, 2010). Professor emerita at the University of Delaware, past poet laureate of Delaware, she lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma, Washington.
Cate Hennessey’s essays and book reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Gettysburg Review, Fourth Genre, PANK, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, she teaches at West Chester University.
Tim Hillegonds‘ earned a Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University in Chicago. His work has appeared in Brevity, Midway Journal, RHINO, Bluestem Magazine, and r.k.v.r.y. quarterly. He was nominated for a 2015 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, and received an Honorable Mention for nonfiction in the New Millennium Award 36 presented by New Millennium Writings. He is a contributing editor at Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts, and is currently seeking representation for his memoir, A Story Like This.
Sonya Huber is the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), finalist for the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Nonfiction, and Opa Nobody (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. She has also written a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration (Equinox Publishing, forthcoming). Her work has been published in literary journals and magazines including Fourth Genre, Passages North, Hotel Amerika, Crab Orchard Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post Magazine, and in many anthologies. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield Low-Residency MFA program. Read more at sonyahuber.com.
Rebecca McClanahan has published ten books of nonfiction, essays, poetry, and writing instruction, most recently The Tribal Knot: A Mem-
oir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change and a new edition of Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, The Sun, and numerous anthologies. McClanahan has received the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine, a Pushcart Prize in fiction, the Glasgow Award in nonfiction for her suite of essays, The Riddle Song, and literary fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. She teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University and Rainier Writing Workshop.
Donald J. Mitchell lives in Deming, WA, on land his great grandfather homesteaded in the 1880s. He’s lived there all his life writing poetry, short essays, and fiction. His essays and poems have been most recently published in The Far Field, Moss Literary Journal, The Boiler Journal, Animal Literary Journal, Four Ties Lit Review, and Noisy Water: Poetry from Whatcom County, Washington.
Joe Oestreich is the author of two books of creative nonfiction: Lines of Scrimmage (co-written with Scott Pleasant, 2015) and Hitless Wonder (2012). His work has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Creative Nonfiction, Ninth Letter, Fourth Genre, The Normal School, and many other magazines and journals. Four of his pieces have been cited as notable essays in the Best American series, and he’s received special mention twice in the Pushcart Prize anthology. He teaches creative writing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, where he directs the MA in Writing program and co-edits Waccamaw.
Jan Shoemaker’s essays have been anthologized, featured on public radio, and have appeared in many magazines and journals including River Teeth, The Sun, Fourth Genre, The Colorado Review, Sufi Journal, and American Literary Review. She writes and teaches in Michigan.
William Torrey teaches Creative Writing and Literature at St. Andrew’s School. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, The Florida Review, The North American Review, Washington Square Review, Colorado Review, the Hawaii Review, New Madrid, and Zone 3, where his story “Trabajar” won the 2011 Editors’ Prize. He lives with his wife in rural Delaware.
Jerald Walker is the author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, recipient of the 2011 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction. His essays have appeared in many publications, and he has been widely anthologized, including four times in The Best American Essays. His next memoir, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, will be published in fall 2016. Walker teaches at Emerson College in Boston.
Gina Williams lives and creates in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing and visual art have been featured most recently by Okey-Panky, Carve, The Sun, Fugue, Whidbey Art Gallery, Palooka, Great Weather for Media, and Black Box Gallery, among others. Learn more about her and her work at GinaMarieWilliams.com.
Heather Gemmen Wilson is an award-winning author. She enjoyed a twenty-year career as a book editor before returning to school. She earned her MA in Creative Writing at Ball State University and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Ashland University. She has discovered that education brings not just new knowledge but a sense of exhilaration. As bell hooks says, we are “changed by ideas.” Heather is now teaching writing at the university level, fulfilling her passion to help the next generation of writers to find their voices and impact the world.
