Nicholas Dighiera is a meat machine animated by electrical signals that are generated from chemicals necessary for survival amongst mammoths and short-faced bears. He is pretty sure he is real, his preferred piece of playground equipment is the swing, and he is honored to be in River Teeth and would like to grab a beer with you sometime to discuss the merits of sandwiches, VWs, and your favorite childhood memory.
Nicole Hamer is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in or is forthcoming in BITCH Magazine, GOOD Magazine, WBUR Arts & Culture, River Teeth, Hobart, and Foliate, among other publications. Her play, Clark and Kent, was performed on stage in Chicago. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and has taught nonfiction writing at the undergraduate level. Nicole worked as a freelance writer and photographer in the Middle East. She has also worked in finance and publishing and produced independent documentaries for radio. She once threw a woman’s luggage off a train in the South of France, then lived to tell the story on stage for NPR affiliate NEPM’s Valley Voices. She is currently working on a book about Traveling Abroad While Black and a short documentary about James Baldwin’s time spent in a Parisian jail.
Jessica Kulynych is a writer living in Connecticut. She has a PhD in Political Theory from The University of Connecticut and has published academic work on democratic theory and the politics of childhood. Her creative nonfiction appears in Sycamore Review, Canary, and Carve.
David McGlynn is the author of three books, The End of the Straight and Narrow, A Door in the Ocean, and One Day You’ll Thank Me. He’s a frequent contributor to Men’s Health magazine, and his recent work appears in The American Scholar, Narrative, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin and teaches at Lawrence University.
Lilly U. Nguyen is a writer and editor based in San Diego. She is the American-born daughter of Vietnamese boat people and is currently preparing a memoir-in-essays on the questions of inheritance, obligation, and the refugee self. Her work has been previously recognized by awards from PEN Emerging Voices, and Tin House. “Giving, or Refugee Love Language” is her first work of creative nonfiction.
Craig Reinbold’s writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The New England Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Guernica, Brevity, and online at The Missouri Review. He is a regular contributor to Essay Daily and co-edited, with Ander Monson, How We Speak to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader. He works as a nurse in a Milwaukee-area ER.
S. N. Rodriguez is a writer and photographer in Austin, Texas. She is a Writers’ League of Texas Fellow, and her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Blue Mesa Review, Southeastern Naturalist, and elsewhere.
Ellen Rogers is a writer living in Minnesota. Her poems and essays can be found in AGNI, Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, and other journals. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Washington University and has served as an editor for Bellingham Review and The Hopper.
Ana Maria Spagna is the author, most recently, of the poetry chapbook, Mile Marker Six and Pushed: Miners, a Merchant and (Maybe) a Massacre, forthcoming from Torrey House Press. Her previous books include Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going; Reclaimers, stories of elder women reclaiming sacred land and water; Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize; and two previous essay collections, Potluck and Now Go Home. Ana Maria’s work has been recognized by the Society for Environmental Journalists, and as a four-time finalist for the Washington State Book Award. After working fifteen years on backcountry trail crews, she turned to teaching. She now teaches in the low-residency MFA programs at Antioch University and Western Colorado University and lives (most of the time) in the North Cascades of Washington State.
Leslie Stonebraker lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two rambunctious kiddos. You can read more of her work in the Brevity Blog, The Kenyon Review Online, Motherwell Magazine, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Invisible City, Entropy, and has work forthcoming in Upstreet. She is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Jessie van Eerden is the author of the portrait essay collection The Long Weeping and three novels: Glorybound, My Radio Radio, and Call It Horses which won the 2019 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing, Oxford American, Image, New England Review, and other magazines and anthologies. She has been awarded the Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction, the Milton Fellowship, and a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship. Jessie holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa; she teaches creative writing at Hollins University and serves as nonfiction editor for Orison Books. You can read more at her website: www.jessievaneerden.com.
