Amanda Bestor-Siegal is based in Paris, where she is working on a novel. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Threepenny Review and Salon.
Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. He is the author of All the Ways We Kill and Die and the war memoir The Long Walk, which was adapted into an opera and named an Amazon Best Book for 2012. A contributing writer to VICE, he has also published work in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Boston Globe, as well as on National Public Radio. His latest project, a co-edited collection of short stories, is titled The Road Ahead.
Krista Christensen’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Harpur Palate, Hippocampus, Word Riot, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA from Ashland University and has recently completed a memoir, which details her struggle to find peace after sudden hysterectomy at age thirty-two. Find her on Facebook or visit her website.
Reg Darling lives in Vermont with his wife and cats. When he isn’t writing, he paints and wanders in the woods. He was an outdoor writer of sorts in a previous literary incarnation, but has wandered off into the rest of his life. His essays have been published in Azure, Dark Matter Journal, The Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review, Hoot, Traditional Bowhunter, Primitive Archer, and Hellbender Journal.
Michael Downs‘s books include House of Good Hope (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, and The Greatest Show (Louisiana State University Press), a collection of linked stories featuring the Hartford Circus Fire of 1944. With Jim Hock, he also wrote Hollywood’s Team: Grit, Glamour, and the 1950s Los Angeles Rams (Rare Bird Books).
Andre Dubus III‘s books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent book, Dirty Love, published in the fall of 2013, was a New York Times “Notable Book” selection, a New York Times “Editors’ Choice,” a 2013 “Notable Fiction” choice from The Washington Post, and a Kirkus “Starred Best Book of 2013.” His new novel, Gone So Long, is forthcoming.
Mr. Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern dancer, and their three children.
E. A. Farro is a scientist and artist living along the Mississippi River in Minnesota. She has a PhD in geology and has spent a lot of time living in the wilderness. She is working on a novel and a weekly online collaboration, Science Love Letters. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Common, The Seneca Review, Water~Stone Review, Eckleburg Review, The Rumpus, The Normal School, The Bellingham Review, and The Kenyon Review Online. She won a Loft Literary Mentor Series Award in 2010.
Zachary Gerberick is a MFA candidate in creative writing at Florida State University. He received his bachelor’s degree in electronic media from the University of Cincinnati and enjoys crossing genres with his work, specifically regarding video and writing. He currently resides in Tallahassee, where he enjoys hiking and skateboarding in his free time.
Lauren Hobson is a graduate of Tulane University. She lives, works, and writes in Portland, Oregon.
Thomas Larson is a journalist, critic, and memoirist. He is the author of three books: The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease, The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” and The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative. A longtime staff writer for the San Diego Reader, Larson is Book Reviews editor for River Teeth. His website is www.thomaslarson.com.
Brenda Miller is the author of An Earlier Life, Who You Will Become, Listening Against the Stone: Selected Essays, Blessing of the Animals, and Season of the Body. She co-authored, with poet Holly J. Hughes, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World and Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction. Her work has received six Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, The George Review, and The Missouri Review. She teaches creative writing for the MA program in English Studies at Western Washington University.
Kerry Muir holds an MFA from Vermont College of the Fine Arts, where she studied with Robin Hemley, Philip Graham, and Brett Lott. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Quarter After Eight, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. She also writes plays and screenplays, and works as a journalist. For more about her work, please visit her website.
Julie Marie Wade is the author of four collections of poetry and prose, most recently Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016) and SIX: Poems (Red Hen Press, 2016), selected by C. D. Wright as the winner of the 2014 AROHO/To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize. A recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, she teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami and reviews regularly for Lambda Literary Review and The Rumpus.
