Beth Alvarado is the author of Anxious Attachments, which won the 2020 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction, and of Jillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales. “Bloomsbury in winter—2020” is from Unreachable Cities, a cycle of essays named for cities visited, remembered, and returned to by a voice that looks at the present, in all its complications, via the lessons and art of the past. Although she lived in the desert borderlands of southern Arizona for most of her life, she now writes and teaches in the high desert of central Oregon.Jacob M. Appel is the author of nineteen volumes of fiction and nonfiction including Einstein's Beach House. He practices medicine in New York City. More at www.jacobmappel.comEmily Arnason Casey is a writer and educator living in rural Vermont. Her first book, Made Holy, was published by the University of Georgia Press. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches at the Community College of Vermont as well as online in various capacities. For more about her work and writing: www.emilyarnasoncasey.com.Craig Bernardini's stories and essays have appeared most recently in AGNI, Craft, and PANK. He teaches English at Hostos Community College, a City University of New York school in the Bronx, and blogs about music at Helldriver's Pit Stop, on the CUNY Academic Commons. He lives in the mid-Hudson Valley with partner, dogs, cat, and chickens.Catherine Carberry lives in Woodstock, NY, where she is working on a novel about the 1950s independence movement in Puerto Rico. Her fiction has appeared in journals including Kenyon Review, Tin House online, Guernica, Indiana Review, Harvard Review, and has been broadcast on National Public Radio.Jax Connelly (they/she) is a non-binary writer whose creative nonfiction explores the intersections of queer identity, unstable bodies, and mental illness. Their experimental and hybrid essays have received honors including Nowhere's Fall 2020 Travel Writing Prize, a Notable in the Best American Essays 2019, first place in the 2019 Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest, and the 2018 Pinch Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, among others, and have appeared or are forthcoming in [PANK], The Rumpus, Hunger Mountain, Ruminate, Pleiades, and more. Learn more at jaxconnelly.wixsite.com/writer.Kate Carroll de Gutes is the author of two award-winning memoirs, Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear and The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons from the Best and Worst Year of My Life. She lives in Iowa City with her wife, the writer Laura Julier.Jennifer Delahunty lives, writes, and edits from her home in Sisters, Oregon. She earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona. She has taught writing at her alma mater as well as at Kenyon College where she served as dean of admission and financial aid. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Blue Mesa Review, and Fourth Genre, among others. She is the editor of “I'm Going to College, Not You: Surviving the College Search with Your Child” (St. Martin's Press, 2010). More at jenniferdelahunty.com.Bethany Ericson is a writer and artist based in Cambridge, MA. She has written for The Christian Science Monitor, Cognoscenti, Muse, Yankee, The Boston Globe, Outdoors, Cape Cod Magazine, Self, and more. Her essays have been heard on NPR's “Living on Earth” and “Only a Game.” She wrote the guidebook New England Cabins & Cottages, was a tech reporter on three TV shows, and pioneered one of the first blogs. She has an MA in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College.Zoe Fowler is a researcher, adjunct professor, mother, foster mother, and writer. A recent graduate of the University of Oxford's Masters in Creative Writing, she is currently working on a manuscript which is part biography of Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon and wife of Bill W., and part memoir of her own marriage. She has recently been published by the Bellingham Review and the Bellevue Literary Review. She is interested in hearing stories from other people who love, or have loved, alcoholics and can be contacted via LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/fowlercyberwriter.Born in 1956, Robert Hite grew up in Bowling Green, VA. His career began in Washington, DC, then NYC, and in 1997 his family moved to the Hudson Valley where he transformed an old Methodist Church in Esopus, NY, into his studio. In 2014, Rob was awarded the John Guggenheim Fellowship. Robert Hite lives on through his art, as well as the effect he had on so many he crossed paths with, nurtured, supported, and loved. His work can be found at http://roberthite.com/.Kathryn Brittany Jackson was born and raised in Southern California, and has lived in Iowa City and southwest Virginia, in a city by the Blue Ridge Mountains. She is a recent graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Hollins University. Her short-form memoir has appeared in print in Split Lip Magazine and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2019.Laura Julier edited Fourth Genre for ten years. At Michigan State University, she directed the Professional Writing Program, and taught courses in editing, publishing, and nonfiction. She has co-edited a book forthcoming this year from University Press of Colorado on the historical, institutional, and personal intersections between composition studies and the teaching of nonfiction, and is at work on a lyric memoir about living in a cabin on a dirt road along the Iowa River.Nichole LeFebvre earned her MFA at the University of Virginia and has published nonfiction in Ninth Letter, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and On the Seawall. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, the Community of Writers, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for her memoir-in-progress Come Clean with Us.Anne McGrath is a Best American Essays 2020 Notable, Pushcart Prize nominee, and the recipient of fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, Ruminate, The Indianapolis Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and other publications. Find her on Instagram @TheAnneMcGrath.Son of a white mother and African American father, Matthew Morris most often writes through questions of race, family history, and identity. Grist, Mid-American Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and apt are previous and forthcoming pubs. He is a nonfiction graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arizona and is working on a manuscript about the literary trope of the tragic mulatto.A former Stanford and professional basketball player, Mariah Burton Nelson is the author of seven books, most notably The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football (Harcourt Brace). She has written about gender and sports for The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times, and many other publications; has given keynote presentations in 49 states; and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, Dateline, Larry King Live, and myriad other shows. She is at work on a graphic memoir about grief, creativity, and ancient goddess figurines.Heather Quinn is an essayist and photographer living in Saint Paul with their husband and two children. They are a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellow, judged by Hanif Abdurraqib. A Minnesota native, they spent most of their childhood and early adulthood in Southern California, and their work frequently features the desert landscape around the Salton Sea in the southeastern corner of the state. They earned their MFA from Portland State University, and they were a 2019–2020 Loft Mentor Series fellow. Their essays have appeared in Longreads, Cutbank, Salt Hill Journal, Vela, The Rumpus, Under the Gum Tree, Green Briar Review, and The Riveter. They are working on a memoir, This is How You Disappear, about the California desert and their father's suicide.Kate Martin Rowe was born in Omaha, Nebraska, reared in Texas and New Mexico, and came of age at the base of the San Gabriel mountains in Los Angeles. Her nonfiction and poetry have appeared in the Hypertext Review, fugue, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brevity, and elsewhere. She is at work on a memoir-in-essays about infertility, foster care, and interracial adoption and teaches writing at Glendale Community College. You can find her online at katemartinrowe.com.Cynthia Salter is a former newspaper reporter turned public health professional turned creative writer, who lives in Pittsburgh, where she teaches Global Health and community-based public health program development. Cynthia earned her undergraduate degree at Ohio Wesleyan University, and after graduation she reported for daily newspapers for several years before joining the U.S. Peace Corps to serve in Central America. On her return to the United States, she earned her Master's of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University, where she later worked for the Center for Communication Programs as a senior writer/researcher for the former quarterly journal, Population Reports. Most recently, Cynthia earned her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, where she is now an assistant professor. In her years as a journalist, her reporting was published in the former U.S. News & World Report, The Columbus Citizen Journal, The Huntington Herald Dispatch, The Phoenix Gazette and The Delaware Gazette. She has co-authored several scholarly public health articles, most recently co-authoring a response commentary on obstetric violence for the journal, Violence Against Women. She has presented her research and teaching at national public health conferences and has worked closely with university groups promoting engagement between the health sciences and the humanities. Cynthia is a runner and a knitter and a self-declared public health nerd urging everyone to stay safe and stay masked during the pandemic.Sara Mansfield Taber is the author, most recently, of Chance Particulars: A Writer's Field Notebook and the award-winning memoir, Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy's Daughter. She has also published two books of literary journalism, Dusk on the Campo: A Journey in Patagonia and Bread of Three Rivers: The Story of a French Loaf. Two new works will be published in autumn 2021: Black Water and Tulips: My Mother, The Spy's Wife and To Write the Past: A Memoir Writer's Companion, Musings on the Philosophical, Personal, and Artistic Questions Faced by the Autobiographical Writer. Her personal essays, travel pieces, commentary, and reviews have appeared in literary journals such as The American Scholar, newspapers such as The Washington Post, and been produced for public radio. She has taught creative nonfiction writing at universities and literary centers, and mentored hundreds of writers over the last two decades.