Theresa D. Smith’s poems have appeared in Ascent, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, and Verse Daily, among others. My work also earned an Academy of American Poets Prize in a contest judged by Ely Shipley. I am a former poetry editor of Sycamore Review.

Pepper Trail’s poems have been published in Comstock Review, Atlanta Review, Kyoto Journal, Borderlands, Spillway, and other publications. In his professional life, he is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Caroline Sutton’s essays and poetry have appeared in North American Review, Cimarron Review, The Literary Review, and Tampa Review, among others.  Southern Humanities Review nominated her essay, “Eclipsed,” for this year’s Pushcart Prize and selected that essay to receive the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for best essay to appear in SHR in 2012.   Formerly an editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons and Hilltown Press, Sutton currently teaches high school English in New York.

Gary Fincke’s latest collection, The Proper Words for Sin, was published in April, 2013, by West Virginia University Press. Other new stories are recently or upcoming in Cimarron Review, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and South Carolina Review. He is the Charles Degenstein Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University.

Robert Froese has written four novels: The Hour of Blue (1990), The Forgotten Condition of Things (2001), A Dark Music (2006), and The Origins of Misgiving (2009).  His recent short story, “Eva” received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers (May 2012).  He has taught creative writing and film at the University of Maine at Machias, and is a member of the Flat Bay Collective ( http://flatbaycollective.org/rf.htm )

“Curb Appeal”  is part of a recently completed collection manuscript; all of the works in the collection are, in some way, related to “real life” environmental disasters and controversies in and around the Great Lakes. Other stories from the manuscript have appeared in Image, Terrain.org, New Ohio Review and Sycamore Review. His previous two books, Spooky Action at a Distance and Behold Faith, both appeared with Dufour editions. He teaches in the BFA in Creative Writing program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he also serves as Consulting Editor for the literary journal Lake Effect.

Jennifer Jordán Schaller is a community college English teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Her work has appeared in: Literary Mama; Sonora Review; Georgetown Review; Brain, Child; and This American Life.

Jim Dameron has had essays published in Mid-American Review, Northwest Review, Post Road, and other literary magazines. Two of his pieces have been cited as notable by the editors of Best American Essays. In 2011 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  He splits his time between Portland and Lostine Oregon.

J. Malcolm Garcia’s work has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing and Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Bernard Quetchenbach lives in Billings, Montana, where he teaches at Montana State University Billings. One of his essays has recently appeared in The Montreal Review. Forthcoming publications include contributions in The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press) and Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species (University of Minnesota Press). His poetry collection The Hermit’s Place was published by Wild Leaf Press in 2010.