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Bethany Maile is the author of the memoir-in-essays, Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis. Excerpts from that book have been included as Notable Selections in The Best American Essays 2012, The Best American NonRequired Reading 2012, and The Best American Essays 2015. She earned a MFA in nonfiction writing from University of Arizona and teaches writing at Boise State University. For more on her and her work, visit bethanymaile.com. (Photo cred: Daniela Maile)
Claire Meuschke is the author of Upend (Noemi Press, 2020). She lives in Oakland and is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford.
Sarah Minor is the author of Bright Archive, a collection of visual essays (Rescue Press 2020), Slim Confessions (Noemi Press 2021) and The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated, a digital chapbook from Essay Press (2015). Her work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Diagram, Mid-American Review, among other journals, and was selected for the 2018 Barthelme Prize and featured in Gulf Coast. She serves as the video editor at TriQuarterly Review and as Assistant Director of the Cleveland Drafts Literary Festival. Sarah holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD from Ohio University. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the Cleveland Institute of Art (Photo credit: Maria Rouzzo.)
David James Poissant is the author of the novel Lake Life (Simon & Schuster, 2020), a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick, Publishers Weekly Summer Read, and a Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2020. His story collection The Heaven of Animals was a winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a Florida Book Award, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, One Story, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in numerous textbooks and anthologies including New Stories from the South, Best New American Voices, and Best American Experimental Writing. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Central Florida and lives in Orlando with his wife and daughters.
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Mark Polanzak is the author of the hybrid work POP! (Stillhouse Press) and the story collection, The OK End of Funny Town (BOA Editions). His fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Scholar, and anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. Mark is a founding editor for draft: the journal of process and teaches writing and literature at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He lives in Salem, MA. (photo credit: James McGraghan)
John Washington writes about immigration and border politics, as well as prisons, foreign policy, food, and fashion for various publications. He is a regular contributor to The Nation magazine and The Intercept. He has translated eight books, including Óscar Martinez's The Beast and The Hollywood Kid. The Dispossessed—a narrative take on asylum policy and its ancient history— published by Verso this year, is his first book. Find him at @jbwashing. (Photo credit: Natascha Elena Uhlmann)