Sean Enfield is a writer and educator from Dallas, Texas. His debut collection of essays, holy american burnout!, was published by Split/Lip Press in December 2023. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska–Fairbanks where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of Permafrost Magazine, and he is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also serves as an Assistant Non-Fiction Editor at Terrain.org. His own work has been published in Black Warrior Review, Hayden’s Ferry, Tahoma Literary Review, and The Rumpus, among others, and he was the 2020 recipient of the Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize from Fourth Genre. You can find his work at seanenfield.com.
Robert W. Fieseler is a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association “Journalist of the Year” and the acclaimed author of Tinderbox—winner of the Edgar Award and the Louisiana Literary Award, shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Writing. As a Tulane PhD History candidate and Mellon Fellow, Fieseler is currently working on his second queer history book, a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. He lives with his husband and kittens in New Orleans.
Dr. Melody Glenn is a Tucson author and physician whose first book, Mother of Methadone, is forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2025. She is a Tin House Workshop alum with an MFA from Mills College whose work has been supported by a de Groot Foundation Courage to Write Finalist Award and an artist residency at El Sur. She is also an addiction and emergency physician at the University of Arizona and a board member of Cochise Harm Reduction.
Hannibal Hamlin is Professor of English at The Ohio State University in Columbus, where he teaches, reads, and writes. He is the author of The Bible in Shakespeare and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion, among other books and many articles. He is Vice President of The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.
Jenna Hammerich writes now and then, mostly short essays that never see daylight. She lives on a small farm near Iowa City, works as an editor, and reads about architecture.
Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award and the Eric Hoffer Award. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Tim’s work has appeared in The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Assay, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, River Teeth, Baltimore Review, Brevity, Under the Gum Tree, Hippocampus Magazine, The Fourth River, Midway Journal, RHINO, Bluestem Magazine, r.k.v.r.y. quarterly, and others. In 2019, Tim was named by the Guild Literary Complex as one of their thirty “Writers to Watch.” He earned a Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University in Chicago and currently serves as a contributing editor for Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.
Sarah Minor is the author of Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press 2020), and The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press 2016). She teaches in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing MFA and serves as the Video Essay and Cinepoetry section editor at TriQuarterly Review. Her essay is published with thanks to Don and Caitlin Verkuijlen.
Ali Saperstein writes creative nonfiction from her home in the Pacific Northwest, with a pencil grip tinted blue with the wild Maine berries of her childhood. When not writing, she works as a water quality planner, editor, and joyfully mediocre vegetable gardener. Her work has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, Humana Obscura, Miracle Monocle, Watershed Review, and elsewhere.
