Barry Peters lives in Durham, North Carolina. His fiction has appeared in Baltimore Review, Broad River Review, The Mackinaw, and more.

Sally Toner is a writer and high school English teacher who has lived in the DMV for over 25 years.

Sofi Guven is a writer and poet from Cincinnati, Ohio. She has previously been published by Wilderness House Literary Review and more.

Evan Morgan Willams retired in 2022 after 29 years of teaching in a public school.

Dean Hel is a writer and educator based in Houston, Texas. Their work has appeared in Assignment Literary Magazine and Five on the Fifth.

Francis Strickler is a “teacher who writes,” originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA.

Billy Howell's work has appeared in The Florida Review, Lumina, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere.

Katie Burgess lives near a mayonnaise factory in South Carolina. Her work can be found in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more.

Brian McVety is a teacher who lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts with his wife and three daughters.

Mick Bennett is a retired teacher/adjunct. He and his wife enjoy porch sitting with a golden retriever in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Francois Bereaud celebrated turning 50 a few years back by completing an MFA at San Diego State University.

Brendan Shea is an educator and writer from Hyattsville, Maryland. Brendan loves folklore and the idea of hiking.

Rosalind Goldsmith lives in Toronto and has recently retired from teaching literacy in an adult education program.

Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 teacher in Metro Detroit. His fiction has appeared in Flyover Country and Rejection Letters.