Stacy Gnall is the author of the poetry collections Dogged (winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry from The University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming 2022, and a finalist for the 2020 Georgia Poetry Prize) and Heart First into the Forest (Alice James Books, 2011). Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, New American Writing, and Third Coast. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California and is also a graduate of the University of Alabama’s MFA program in Creative Writing and of Sarah Lawrence College. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she now lives and teaches in Detroit.

View her author website at stacygnall.com.

Sarah McColl is the author of the critically acclaimed debut memoir, Joy Enough (Liveright/W.W. Norton & Company, 2019), as well as Lost Art, a monthly essay newsletter about the creative work of (mostly) dead women. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and StoryQuarterly, and her food writing has been widely published in Bon Appetit, House Beautiful, and Food52, among others. She’s the recipient of fellowship awards from the Millay Colony, Ucross, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell, where she was named the 2017 Mary Carswell Fellow. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Northern California.

View her author website at sarahmccoll.com.

Ben Goodwin is an Instructor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses in First-Year Writing. He previously worked as a Lecturer at Utah Valley University (UVU) and as a High School English teacher in North Carolina. Ben has extensive experience teaching writing across various levels. At UVU, he taught Pre-Core Reading and Writing courses, served as Professional in Residence in the Literacies and Composition Department, and eventually became the Lead Instructor and Designer of Pre-Core Reading and Writing. For his outstanding, student-centered pedagogy, Ben was awarded UVU’s Faculty Excellence Award. He holds an MA in Writing and Rhetoric from Michigan State University (with a Secondary Education focus) and a BA in Secondary English Education from Elon University in North Carolina.