About the Contributors

Chris Arthur is an Irish essayist currently based in Scotland. He's the author of several essay collections, most recently Hidden Cargoes (2022), and has published in a range of journals. Further information about his writing can be found here: www.chrisarthur.org.Karen Babine is the two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota, 2015). She also edits Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. Her third book is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2023.Tanya Bomsta's essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Florida Review, The Iowa Review, december, and elsewhere. She has also published scholarship and reviews in Assay and Pleiades. Her writing awards include a Florida Review's Editor Award, an offered Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation finalist award. Her work has also been listed among the Notable Essays of the Best American Essays.Steven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently the collection of essays, I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear, and Fatherhood. His essays have been published and anthologized widely, including in the Best American Essays, the Best of Brevity, and Fourth Genre: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine, The Normal School and teaches in the MFA Program at Fresno State.Allison Ellis's writing has been published in The Rumpus, The Ploughshares blog, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Her essays and nonfiction have won awards from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and the First Pages Prize/Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She holds an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars, a BA from Smith College in American Studies, and teaches creative writing at Hugo House in Seattle, Washington. Read more of her work at allisonellis.com.Tom Montgomery Fate is a professor emeritus at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he taught creative writing and literature courses for more than 30 years. He is the author of six books of creative nonfiction, including The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries, a travel memoir (Ice Cube Press, 2022), Cabin Fever, a nature memoir (Beacon Press), and Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir (Chalice Press). A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, his essays have been widely published and have often aired on NPR and Chicago Public Radio. More info at: https://tomfate.com/.Paul Haney is a writer and educator in the Boston area. His work has appeared in Slate, Boston Globe Magazine, Potomac Review, Cincinnati Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He serves as coeditor of The Dylan Review. Follow him @paulhaney.Kabi Hartman is an English professor at Franklin & Marshall College. Her work has appeared in The Point, Carve, Porter House Review, themillions.com, Western Humanities Review, and other journals.Michael Hess is a Toronto-based writer and filmmaker who has published in Fourth Genre, The Malahat Review, Best Gay Stories (2016), Broad Street, Shenandoah, and Post Road, where he earned his first Pushcart Prize nomination. His films have played at NewFest, Kansas International Film Festival, the NYU Director's Series, the American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, and at Terrain.org. He is currently working on his debut novel at the Humber School for Writers.Patrick Hicks is the author of over ten books, including The Collector of Names, Adoptable, and This London—he also wrote the critically and popularly acclaimed novel, The Commandant of Lubizec. His latest novel is In the Shadow of Dora, which was recently a finalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition in Hollywood. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Salon, Chronicle of Higher Education, Commonweal, Huffington Post, Guernica, and many others. He has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, he was recently a finalist for the High Plains Book Award, the Dzanc Short Story Competition, and the Steinberg Essay Prize. A former Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he is the recipient of a number of grants and fellowships, including awards from the Bush Artist Foundation, the Loft Literary Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Joanne Jacobson's most recent book is Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses (University of Utah Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in such publications as New England Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Southwest Review, Gastronomica, and The Nation—as well as Fourth Genre—and has been cited in Best American Essays and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She taught for over thirty years at Yeshiva University in New York. “Garden Hunter” is part of a new writing project, on home.Erin Langner is an essayist and arts writer based in Seattle. Her writing has appeared in december, The Offing, The Normal School, Hobart, and The Brooklyn Rail. Langner is the recipient of a Jack Straw Writers fellowship (2022) and the Good Hart Artist Residency (2023). Her debut essay collection Souvenirs from Paradise was published by Zone 3 Press in 2022.Melissa Lauer is pursuing an MFA at NYU, where she is a recipient of the Goldwater Fellowship. Her Initialing essays won publication by the Iowa Chapbook Prize, and she is currently working on a collection of essays on caretaking and chronic illness.Elaine Herrick Lee is an attorney and author living in Boise, Idaho. She has an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and been published previously in The Normal School. She is currently at work on a novel.Hannah D. Markley is a freelance writer, editor, and educator. Her writing appears in The Bitter Southerner and Appalachian Review.Margaret Nowaczyk is a pediatric geneticist and award-winning writer living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her memoir Chasing Zebras was published in 2021.Annie Penfield's writing explores her awe for the natural world, her relationship to place, the healing of our lineage, and everyday challenges and how to cope with them. A graduate from the MFA in Writing Program from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, she is working on a narrative based on her essay “The Half-Life,” winner of Fourth Genre's Steinberg essay prize and a Notable Essay by Best American Essays. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Whitefish Review, Under the Gum Tree, Catamaran Literary Reader, R.K.V.R.Y, Assay, and Beautiful Things. She lives and rides in rural Vermont, spends time aboard a sailboat in Alaska, and works to reconcile it all on her blog at: www.anniepenfield.com.John T. Price is the award-winning author of four books of nonfiction, including Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships, Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father, and All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations. He is also editor of The Tallgrass Prairie Reader. A recipient of a prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, his work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. He is the Regents/Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he directs the English Department's Creative Nonfiction Writing Program. He lives with his family in the Loess Hills of western Iowa. More info at: www.johntprice.net.Peggy Shinner is the author of the essay collection You Feel So Moral (University of Chicago Press). “The Rest Is History” is part of Wound Weapon Warning Virtue/Essays on Shame, forthcoming from 21st Century Essays, Mad Creek Books. She divides her time between Chicago and northern New Mexico.Cara Stoddard holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Idaho. “Overlay” is an essay about tracking an intersex mountain goat with a friend in the North Cascades in Washington state. Cara's memoir manuscript, “Spirography,” was a semi-finalist in Autumn House Press's Nonfiction contest in 2021. Their essay “Hysteresis” won Terrain.org's 10th Annual Nonfiction Contest and was nominated for the 2021 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award. Their essay “Lake People,” appeared in The Gettysburg Review and was nominated for a Pushcart in 2012, and their essay “Krummholz” won first prize in Flyway: Journal of Writing and the Environment's Notes from the Field contest in 2011. You can find out more about their writing and awards at https://www.carastoddard.com.James Sullivan is from the American Midwest. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, New Ohio Review, Third Coast, Phoebe, Hobart, and Fourteen Hills among others. In 2022, he was a finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. Connect on Twitter @jfsullivan4th.Jocelyn Winn is a New Hampshire-based freelance writer and founder of The Eleventh Letter editorial services. She is a nonfiction reader for the Maine Review and Hunger Mountain and holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her most recent work can be found in the online journals Eratio, Past Ten, and The Waterwheel Review.Erin Wisti is a writer and journalist whose essays have previously appeared in Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Slate, Vice, NPR, and other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Knock LA, a hyperlocal community newsroom, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three cats.

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