Susanna Childress has published two books of poetry: Jagged with Love, winner of the 2005 Brittingham Prize, and Entering the House of Awe, winner of the 2012 Society of Midland Authors Award. She also writes short fiction and creative nonfiction.

Karl Plank's poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, New Madrid, Anglican Theological Review, Spiritus, Still, and featured on Poetry Daily. He is the J.W. Cannon Professor of Religion at Davidson College.

Bethany Bowman's poems have recently appeared in The Comstock Review, Art House America, Ascent, Rock & Sling, and The Cresset.

Micheal Schmidt is an MFA candidate at Eastern Washington University. He is grateful to be alive. He misses the ocean.

Whitney L. Schwartz is the author of Grace Like Rain and Mona Lisa: Carlingford Chronicles Book 1. Her short story Remember Where Your Home Is was chosen as a semifinalist for The 2014 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize.

Richard Schiffman is an environmental journalist, poet and author of two biographies. His poems have been published in the New Ohio Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times and many other publications.