Madeleine Barowsky is a software engineer and line cook living in Massachusetts. Her nonfiction has been published in The Florida Review.Jennifer Brennock writes and teaches prose and poetry. Her work can be found in Minerva Rising, Rough and Rede, Line Zero, Till, Shark Reef, Involutions, Becoming: What Makes a Woman from University of Nebraska and produced for stage at Orcas Center and Actors Theater of Orcas Island. She earned a MFA in Writing from Goddard College and lives in Portland, Oregon.Miriam Camitta is a writer living outside of Philadelphia. She earned the MFA in Fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars and a PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught for many years. A participant in the Bread Loaf, Tin House, and Vermont College of Fine Arts post graduate writing workshops, her fiction won an Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train Magazine. Her documentary, “Crosstown,” was a finalist in the Independent category at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Camitta currently teaches at Temple University and is a fiction editor at Cleaver Magazine. “Necessary for Life” is her first publication of creative nonfiction.David Carlin (davidxcarlin.com) has published seven books of nonfiction and is Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT University.Paula Carter is the author of the memoir No Relation. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Northwestern University.Sophie Cunningham is an Australian essayist and the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel, This Devastating Fever, is coming out in September 2022. She is an Adjunct Professor at Melbourne's RMIT University.D. Dina Friedman is the author of two YA novels, Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad's Song (Farrar Straus Giroux) and one chapbook of poetry, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press). She has published in many literary journals and received two Pushcart Prize nominations. Visit her website at http://www.ddinafriedman.com.Sarah Gorham is a poet and essayist, most recently the author of Alpine Apprentice (2017), which made the short list for 2018 PEN/Diamonstein Award in the Essay and Study in Perfect (2014), selected by Bernard Cooper for the 2013 AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. Both were published by University of Georgia Press. Gorham is also the author of four collections of poetry—Bad Daughter (2011), The Cure (2003), The Tension Zone (1996), and Don't Go Back to Sleep (1989). Other honors include grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three state arts councils, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Media coverage has included Bomb, Kirkus, Salon, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Agni, Diagram, Utne Reader, Slate, Library Journal, Shelf Unbound, The Nation, Real Simple, The Missouri Review, and more. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books, an independent, nonprofit, literary publisher. The press was selected as the inaugural winner of the AWP Small Press Publisher Award in 2013. And recently, CLMP chose Sarabande as 2022 winner of the Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing.Rohini Harvey's essays on being both a physician and a patient have previously appeared in Pangyrus, The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. She currently cares for hospitalized adults and children in Massachusetts. Rohini also uses literature to teach communication skills and reflective practice to physicians and medical students. You can follow her on Twitter @RohiniHarvey or on her blog doctorgingermouse.com.Siobhan Harvey is the author of eight books, including the poetry and creative nonfiction collection, Ghosts (Otago University Press, 2021), which was long listed for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at 2022 Ockham Book Awards. She was awarded the 2021 Janet Frame Memorial Award for Poetry, 2020 New Zealand Society of Authors Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship, 2019 Kathleen Grattan Award for a Sequence of Poems, 2019 Robert Burns Poetry Prize and 2016 Write Well Award (Fiction, US). Recently her work has been published in journals and anthologies such as, Acumen (UK), Asia Literary Review (HK), Best New Zealand Poems (NZ), Feminine Divine: Voices of Power & Invisibility (Cyren US, 2019), Griffith Review (Aus), Mslexia (UK), Out Here; An Anthology of LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (AUP, 2021), Stand and Strong Words 2: The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition (Otago University Press, 2021). Presently she's a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Centre for Creative Writing, Auckland University of Technology where she holds a PhD in Creative Writing.James Hessler divides his time between San Francisco and Wailea and Kula on Maui. He has previously published in Shark Reef and is currently editing his book, Hearts and Minds, a coming-of-age memoir covering his school years and service in a US Army psychological operations unit during the Vietnam War.Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Tim's work has appeared in The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Assay, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, River Teeth, Baltimore Review, Brevity, Under the Gum Tree, Hippocampus Magazine, The Fourth River, Midway Journal, RHINO, Bluestem Magazine, r.k.v.r.y. quarterly, and others. In 2019, Tim was named by the Guild Literary Complex as one of their thirty “Writers to Watch.” He earned a Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University in Chicago. Tim currently serves as a contributing editor for Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.Gray Hilmerson teaches American Literature at the University of Memphis. His writing has appeared in Slice and Juked, among others publications. Having recently completed work on his first novel, Shadow Country, he's hard at work on another as he studies the dark art of finding an agent.Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Revolutions We'd Hoped We'd Outgrown, shortlisted for Jane's Stories Press Foundation's Clara Johnson Award in Women's Literature, and Diary of the One Swelling Sea, winner of a Nautilus Silver Award in Poetry, plus the chapbooks Pendulum and Borderlines. Recent works have appeared or are forthcoming in Slate, Waxwing, The Brooklyn Review, Gulf Stream, Terrain.org, and Crab Creek Review. Jill is the founder of Wandering Aengus Press and teaches Creative Writing for Skagit Valley College.Kristine Langley Mahler is a memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie outside Omaha, Nebraska, a city ridging the backbone of the West and the Midwest. Her debut essay collection, Curing Season: Artifacts, is forthcoming with WVU Press in October 2022. A second collection of essays, A Calendar is a Snakeskin, is forthcoming with Autofocus in spring 2023. The recipient of a 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council, Kristine is also the director and publisher of Split/Lip Press.Hannah D. Markley is a freelance writer, editor, and educator. Her writing appears in The Bitter Southerner and Appalachian Review.Sarah Myers is a playwright who dabbles in creative nonfiction. Her work has been produced in New York, Chicago, Austin, and Minneapolis, and her plays and essays have been published with Playscripts, Inc., Spout Press, Fourth Genre, New Madrid, TDR: The Drama Review, and The Reflective Teaching Artist. She has been a member of many ensemble-based theater companies, including Workhaus Collective and Rude Mechanicals, and she was an associate professor of theater for several years before deciding to step away from the academy to see what else the world had in store.Alvin Pang, PhD, is a Singaporean poet and editor, and adjunct professor of RMIT University. A 2022 Civitella Ranieri Fellow and Dublin Literary Award judge, his writings have been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide. His recent books include What Happened: Poems 1997-2017 (2017), Uninterrupted Time (2019) and Det som ger oss våra namn (2022).Laura Rose lives and writes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Narrative, River Teeth, New Millennium Writings, and other journals.Shiva Saboori is an Iranian American physician writer whose work on HIV has appeared in Cognoscenti. She has received honorable mention at Chautauqua Institute's Literary Arts Contest for two pieces, one about peanut butter or becoming a US citizen, and another about the day Pepsi Cola came to Tehran's streets. She works as a family doctor at an inner-city community health center during the day, and tries to write at other times, despite distractions from her active menagerie of 2 cats, 1 dog, and a hamster who like to chase each other noisily at all hours. She has been working on a memoir about her childhood in Iran as a contented, yet brainwashed citizen of a happy dictatorship. Shiva lives north of Boston with her husband, and sometimes visiting college-aged daughter.J.D. Scrimgeour is the author of five books of verse and two of nonfiction, including Themes For English B: A Professor's Education In & Out of Class, which won the AWP Award for Nonfiction. His most recent book is the bilingual poetry collection, 香蕉面包 Banana Bread (Nixes Mate 2021).Phillip Sterling's books include two collections of short fiction (In Which Brief Stories Are Told, Amateur Husbandry), two full-length collections of poetry (And Then Snow, Mutual Shores), and five chapbook-length series of poems, the most recent of which, Short on Days, was released from Main Street Rag in June 2020, after several months of quarantine. His essays, both personal and scholarly, have appeared in Fourth Genre, Wake: Great Lakes Thought and Culture, Referential Magazine, The Writer's Chronicle, Alimentum, Old Northwest Review, and Traverse Magazine, among other places, chronicling the impact Sterling's growing up in Michigan (and then raising his own kids there) has had on his life as a poet and academic.Joel Wachman's collection of narrative nonfiction, The Uncertainty Principle, was published in 2021 by Alternating Current Press. His writing has won recognition from Sycamore Review (runner-up for the 2017 Wabash Prize in Creative Nonfiction), and The Coil (3d and 4th place 2016 Lumineer Award for Nonfiction) and has appeared in Harvard Review, the Boston Globe, The Jewish Advocate, and elsewhere. “Duck” is part of a collection-in-progress with the working title This is Getting Old. Wachman is a computer scientist at a research institute that develops treatments for cancer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Jeff Weyant was born and raised and lives and works in Arizona.Hannah White is a writer from the Southcoast of Massachusetts. She has an MA in English from Bridgewater State University and works as an editor full time. Her nonfiction and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Brevity and Sundog Lit.Jessica L. Wilkinson has published three poetic biographies, Marionette: A Biography of Miss Marion Davies (Vagabond 2012), Suite for Percy Grainger (Vagabond 2014) and Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine(Vagabond, 2019). Jessica is the founding editor of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry—which will soon release its 34th issue—and the offshoot Rabbit Poets Series of single-author collections by emerging Australian poets. She co-edited the anthologies Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (2016) and Memory Book: Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Watercolours (2021). She teaches Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne.