Aaron Brown is assistant professor of writing and editing at Sterling College. He received his MFA from the University of Maryland, and his poetry has appeared in Transition, World Literature Today, Tupelo Quarterly, Ruminate, Portland Review, Cimarron Review, and the anthology Best New African Poets 2015.
Meg Eden's work has been published in various magazines, including Rattle, Drunken Boat, Poet Lore, and Gargoyle. She teaches at the University of Maryland. She has four poetry chapbooks, and her novel Post-High School Reality Quest is forthcoming from California Coldblood, an imprint of Rare Bird Lit. Check out her work at www.megedenbooks.com. Cameron Alexander Lawrence is
a graduate of the University of Arizona and lives in Decatur, Georgia, with his wife and three young daughters. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in West Branch, Forklift, Ohio, Whiskey Island, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Image, Asheville Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Katie Manning is founder and editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review and an associate professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks, and her first full-length poetry collection, Tasty Other, is the 2016 winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She has received the Nassau Review Author Award for Poetry, and her writing has been published in Fairy Tale Review, New Letters, Poet Lore, So to Speak, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Find her online at www.katiemanningpoet.com. Devon Miller-Duggan has published poems in Rattle, Shenandoah, Margie, Christianity and Literature, and Gargoyle. She teaches creative writing at the University of Delaware. Her books include Pinning the Bird to the Wall from Tres Chicas Books (2008) and a chapbook of poems about angels, Neither Prayer, Nor Bird, from Finishing Line Press (2013). John Poch's most recent book, Fix Quiet, won the 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Paris Review, The New Republic, New England Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University.