Megan Baxter has won numerous national awards, including a Pushcart Prize. Recent publications included pieces in The Threepenny Review, Hotel Amerika, The Florida Review, and Creative Nonfiction Magazine. She has published three books of creative nonfiction and is currently writing short stories and novels. Megan lives in New Hampshire, where she runs her own small farm and teaches a variety of writing classes and workshops.
Will Bridges is Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities at the University of Rochester, where he also serves as Associate Professor of Japanese and African American studies. His first publication, “Bloodlines and Bitter Syrup” (Creative Nonfiction, Issue 73), was named a Notable Essay by Best American Essays. He is currently working on an essay collection, How to Make and Break a Black Pacifist.
Janet Burroway is the author of poems, plays, essays, children’s books, a memoir, and nine novels including The Buzzards; Raw Silk, Opening Nights, Cutting Stone (all Notable Books of NYTBR), and Simone in Pieces, due out Fall 2025. Her Writing Fiction is now in a tenth edition, Imaginative Writing in its fifth. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University and winner of the Florida Humanities Lifetime Achievement Award. www.janetburroway.com.
Roger Conant Cranse graduated Rutgers University in 1963, served two years in the Peace Corps in Nepal and two years as a refugee relief officer with the U.S. State Department in Vietnam. He made his subsequent career at Norwich University and the Community College of Vermont, where he still teaches. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Raritan Quarterly, Hinterland, and other journals. He was awarded the U.S. Medal for Civilian Service in Vietnam.
Hope Henderson is a scientist and writer living in Berkeley, California. Her nonfiction has been published in venues including phoebe, Hobart, and The Rumpus. You can find her work at www.hoperhenderson.com.
Catherine Humikowski is a pediatric intensive care physician who survived a cardiac arrest on the day her daughter was born. Informed by this experience alongside fifteen years of clinical practice in Chicago’s trauma centers, she writes about secondary traumatic stress, burnout, resilience, death, and survivorship. Catherine holds baccalaureate and medical degrees from the University of Chicago and a graduate certificate in creative nonfiction from Northwestern University. Her essays have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Intima Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. Read her work at www.humikowski.com.
Katherine Larson is the author of Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, 2011), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and The Speechless Ones (Interlinea Press, 2016), winner of the Vercelli International Civic Poetry Prize. Her forthcoming book of lyric essays, Wedding of the Foxes, will be published by Milkweed Editions in July 2025.
Lucy McBee is a ghostwriter and editor whose (non-ghostwritten) work has appeared in Indiana Review, New Letters, and The Iowa Review (as recipient of the 2024 award for nonfiction). After a sojourn of nearly a decade in southern New Mexico and then another in Austin, Texas, she returned to central Connecticut, where she was born and where she’s lived the longest. She recently learned that the name of the village she settled in means “home place,” which feels like the sort of unexpected gift you later wonder how you ever lived without.
Mariana Peñaloza Morales is a writer, researcher, and movement worker from Miami, Florida. She is a recent graduate from Dartmouth College and is currently a PhD student in Geography at the University of Minnesota studying the city and catastrophe. She co-translated Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, out now with Haymarket Books. “The Book of Scimitar” is her first published work of creative nonfiction.
Sharman Apt Russell lives in the magical realism of the American Southwest. She has published a dozen books translated into nine languages. Her Diary of a Citizen Scientist won the prestigious John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing. Her recent nonfiction What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs (Columbia University Press, 2024) is part memoir and part introduction to common mammal tracks in North America. By the end of this book, readers should be able to look down at a print on the ground and say, with some satisfaction, “Raccoon” or “Skunk,” “Bobcat” or “Mountain lion,” “Coyote” or “Domestic dog.” Sharman teaches in the MFA program of Antioch University in Los Angeles and is a professor emeritus at Western New Mexico University in Silver City. For more information, go to www.sharmanaptrussell.com.
Margot Singer’s most recent book is the essay collection Secret Agent Man (Barrow Street, 2025). She is also the prizewinning author of a novel, Underground Fugue (Melville House) and a collection of linked stories, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press). With Nicole Walker, she is the editor of Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (Bloomsbury Academic). She is a professor of English at Denison University in Granville, OH. www.margot-singer.com.
Michael Wiley is the author of twelve novels, including, most recently, Find Your Own Way Home, a novel in split prose. His short stories appear often in magazines and anthologies, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Best Mystery Stories of the Year (2022). He has written two books of literary criticism and over forty critical reviews and articles. He is a former national board member of the Mystery Writers of America. Michael has worked as a freelance writer, a political speech writer, an assistant at a last-chance residential facility for teenagers charged with felonies, and, briefly, an itinerant fruit picker. For the past twenty-five years, he has taught literature and writing at University of North Florida.
