Kristine Langley Mahler is the author of three nonfiction books: A Calendar Is a Snakeskin (Autofocus, 2023), Curing Season: Artifacts (WVU Press, 2022), and Teen Queen Training (forthcoming with Autofocus, 2026). Her work has been supported by the Nebraska Arts Council and Art at Cedar Point and twice named Notable in Best American Essays. A memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie, Kristine makes her home outside Omaha, Nebraska. Find more about her projects at kristinelangleymahler.com or @suburbanprairie.

Gage Saylor is a writer and editor from South Carolina. He serves as Guest Editor at CRAFT, The Masters Review, Uncharted, and Fractured. He earned his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University and his M.F.A. from McNeese State University. His work can be found in Southern Humanities Review, Third Coast, Grist, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. You can find him at www.gagesaylor.com

Athena Dixon is the author of The Loneliness Files (Tin House, 2023), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press, 2020), and No God in This Room (Argus House Press, 2018). Her work also appears in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books, 2018) and Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books, 2021). Athena is a fellow of Callaloo and  V.O.N.A. as well as a Tin House Winter Workshop attendee. Additionally, she has presented at AWP, HippoCamp, and The Muse and the Marketplace, among other panels and conferences across the nation. She has served as a Writer in Residence for the app Dipsea. Athena has been awarded a fellowship from The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and a 2nd book residency from Tin House.

Emily Greenberg is a writer, filmmaker, artist, editor, and educator with a background in small press, indie, and academic publishing. Her first book, Alternative Facts, was a Runner-Up for the Acacia Fiction Prize and was published by Kallisto Gaia Press in January 2025. Emily holds an MFA from the Ohio State University, and her writing has appeared in journals including the Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Big Fiction, Santa Monica Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review. Emily is originally from Memphis, Tennessee and currently lives in San Diego, California with her husband and their very anxious dog, Zeke.

Erin Vachon is the Multigenre + Chapbook Editor for Split/Lip Press and the Senior Reviews Editor for SmokeLong Quarterly. They are on the English Department Adjunct Faculty at Rhode Island College and were an Editorial Panelist for Sarabande’s 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.

Their writing appears in the Wigleaf Top 50, Black Warrior Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Pinch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, Brevity, and The Anarchist Review of Books, among others. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictions. They received their M.A. in English from the University of Rhode Island. Erin writes and edits outside Providence, RI.

Caleb Tankersley’s story collection Sin Eaters won the Permafrost Book Prize and was published in 2022 by University of Alaska Press. He is also the author of the chapbook Jesus Works the Night Shift. His writing can be found in Carve, The Cimarron Review, Puerto del Sol, Sycamore Review, and other magazines. He lives and teaches in St. Paul.

Maggie Boyd Hare is a writer from Kentucky whose work appears in publications such as the Oxford American, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Arkansas International. Her work was named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2023. She serves as the founding co-editor of Strange Hymnal. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she also worked as an instructor, and as poetry editor for Ecotone magazine. 

Kate Finegan's work has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. Originally from Tennessee, she now lives on Treaty Six territory in Saskatchewan.

Abigail Oswald is a detective investigating life. Her writing has appeared in places like Best Microfiction, Memoir Mixtapes, The Rumpus, and a memory vending machine. She's also the creator of Microfascination, a newsletter on pop culture rabbit holes. Abigail earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and can be found at the movie theater in at least one parallel universe at any given time. More online at abigailwashere.com.

David Wojciechowski is the author of Dreams I Never Told You & Letters I Never Sent (Gold Wake Press). His poems have appeared in Bateau, Bodega, HAD, Hobart, Meridian, and elsewhere. He also has a few collaborative poems in the anthology They Said (Black Lawrence Press). David is a freelance designer and editor, and he teaches writing and literature at several colleges. David can be found online at davidwojo.com and on Twitter @MrWojoRising.