About the Contributors

Vibha Akkaraju writes personal narratives that emerge from her family entanglements, her overthinking of fleeting observations, and the traffic jam at the Indian American intersection. Her work has been published in The Dillydoun Review, HerStry, and Daring to Breathe: Stories of Living with the Foreverness of Grief (The Press at Cal State University, Fresno, January 2024), among other places. She is currently working on a memoir about her family's move from India to the U.S., her and her father's divergent search for identity, and the ripples cast by immigration. Website: www.vibhascribbles.com.Tim Bascom's newest book, Climbing Lessons, is a collection of brief playful essays about the father-son bond in his Kansas-based clan. Bascom is the author of four other books, including two prize-winning memoirs: Chameleon Days and Running to the Fire. His essays have been published in Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Travel Writing. Today, he directs the Kansas Book Festival and teaches writing through the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.Sabine Casparie is an art historian born in the Netherlands and based in London. Originally a lawyer, Sabine then gained a Graduate Diploma in History of Art from The Courtauld Institute of Art and a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art from Christie's Education. She leads art tours in London, teaches art history to adults and children, and writes a blog on contemporary art. Her main interest is in Revisionist art history—telling the stories of artists that have been overlooked in the Western canon. Sabine is currently working on a memoir that explores the intersection of mental illness and art in her own life. https://www.sabinecasparie.com. @sabinecaspariearts.Jamie Cattanach is a writer from south Florida currently based in Portland, Oregon. Her poems, essays, and reportage have been featured in popular media outlets like SELF, HuffPost, Ms. Magazine, and CNBC as well as journals like the Nashville Review, DMQ Review, Signal Mountain Review, Thin Air Magazine, and others. She is a Tin House 2022 alumnus and a reader for the essays vertical at The Rumpus.Erin E. Edwards is the author of The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous (University of Minnesota Press). Her work has also appeared in Modern Fiction Studies. She is associate professor of English at Miami University, where she teaches courses on modernism, women writers, and experimental film.Kristine S. Ervin is an associate professor at West Chester University. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and a PhD in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Houston. Her work has appeared in Crimereads, Crab Orchard Review, Brevity, Passages North, and Silk Road. Rabbit Heart, her memoir about searching for answers and agency in the aftermath of her mother's murder and about the ways violence permeates through women's bodies, is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in spring 2024.Jules Fitz Gerald (she/her) grew up on North Carolina's Outer Banks and identifies as a queer, gender-nonconforming woman. Since earning her MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, she's been honored with a Lighthouse Works fellowship, selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant in Creative Writing to Slovenia, and short-listed for the 2015 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Okay Donkey, Southern Humanities Review, Raleigh Review, Tampa Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. This essay is inspired by and in conversation with Lydia Davis's “Break It Down.”Danielle Harms writes from Wisconsin, where she is a dissertator in UW-Milwaukee's PhD Program. Her work has been published in the American Literary Review, Conjunctions, and Mid-American Review. She is the winner of an AWP Intro Journal Award, a UW-M Distinguished Dissertator Fellow, and a staff scholar at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop. She is the creative nonfiction editor at Cream City Review, faculty advisor of Furrow, and served as editor of phoebe while earning her MFA at George Mason University. She is at work on a novel about fearsome creatures and complicated pregnancies in Post-Roe Wisconsin. @danielleharms.L.I. Henley was born and raised in the Mojave Desert of California. An interdisciplinary artist and writer, she is the author of six books including Starshine Road (Perugia Press Prize) and the novella-in-verse, Whole Night Through. Her art, poetry, and prose have appeared most recently in Adroit, Brevity, The Indianapolis Review, The Southeast Review, Southern Humanities Review, Ninth Letter, and The Los Angeles Review. Her personal essays have been awarded the Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize and the Robert and Adele Schiff Award. She is the creator of Paper Dolls & Books, a series where Henley creates jointed paper dolls inspired by her favorite books. She also teaches online workshops in CNF.Maria Hummel is a novelist and poet. Her fifth novel, Goldenseal (Counterpoint, 2024), draws from the stories of Dorothea Viehmann, one of the most important contributors to the Grimms fairy tales.Nafisa A. Iqbal is a Bangladeshi writer and graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Columbia University, where she was awarded the Felipe P. De Alba fellowship. Nafisa's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Ex-Puritan, Folio Literary, wildness, Gyroscope Review, and Commonwealth Writers’ adda magazine, among others. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize among over 5,000 applicants. In 2022, she was an honorable mention for the Robert and Adele Schiff Award.Monica Judge's work has appeared in AGNI, Southern Humanities Review, New Delta Review, River Teeth, Beautiful Things, Off Assignment, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology and was a finalist for the Stories Out of School contest held in partnership with The Academy for Teachers and A Public Space. She is a high school English teacher and lives in Maryland with her husband and two children.Elizabeth Koster's work has appeared in River Teeth, Hobart, Lost Balloon, Five Minutes, and the New York Times Modern Love column. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches writing in New York City.Julie Lunde is a multi-genre writer based in Tucson, Arizona. She has work published or forthcoming in Seneca Review, Passages North, Cream City Review, and Pigeon Pages, as well as in the anthology “Letter to A Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us” (Algonquin, 2022), among other places. She is the winner of the 2022 Mountain West Writers Contest at Western Humanities Review and recently received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona. She currently serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at DIAGRAM and is finishing her first book. See more at julielunde.com.Collaborative work by Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade has previously appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Normal School, River Teeth, Punctuate, Phoebe, and Tupelo Quarterly as well as the anthologies The Spirit of Disruption: Landmark Essays from The Normal School (Outpost 19, 2018) and They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). In 2019, their first coauthored collection won the Cleveland State University Press Nonfiction Book Prize, selected by Hanif Abdurraqib. Telephone: Essays in Two Voices was published in 2021 by CSU Press. Miller teaches and writes in Bellingham, WA, and Wade in Dania Beach, FL.Toni Mirosevich's latest book of stories is Spell Heaven (Counterpoint Press, 2022). She's the author of six previous books of poetry and prose including Pink Harvest, winner of the First Series in Creative Nonfiction Award and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her cross-genre writings have appeared in Kenyon Review, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fourth Genre and elsewhere. Her essays have been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best Women's Travel Writing, AutoBioDiversity: True Stories from Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. She's received residencies at MacDowell, Hedgebrook, among others, and is a professor emerita in creative writing from San Francisco State University. More info at www.tonimirosevich.com.Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney's, Intima, and elsewhere. She is a Tin House Nonfiction Winter Workshop, a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and a Harvard Media & Medicine alum. The recipient of a 2019 Washington State Artist Trust Literary Grant, she was runner-up for AWP's 2020 Kurt Brown Prize for Creative Nonfiction. More at marypanwriter.com.Jen Sammons lives in Dayton, Ohio where she explores the intersections of being a queer writer, mother, and teacher, and advocates for visibility in all three. She holds an MFA from Miami University where she is currently a visiting assistant professor in the department of English. Jen is the author of the chapbook, Trisagion, nonfiction winner of the 2018 Gertrude Press chapbook contest. Her work has appeared as an AWP Intro Journal Award winner in Tahoma Literary Review, as well as in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Earth and Altar, River Teeth, Slag Glass City, Palaver, and elsewhere.Faith Shearin's seven books of poetry include: The Owl Question (May Swenson Award), Telling the Bees (SFA University Press), Orpheus, Turning (Dogfish Poetry Prize), Darwin's Daughter (SFA University Press), and Lost Language (Press 53). Her poems have been read aloud on The Writer's Almanac and included in American Life in Poetry. She has received awards from Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her essays have won awards from New Ohio Review and The Missouri Review. Two YA novels—Lost River, 1918 and My Sister Lives in the Sea—won The Global Fiction Prize, judged by Anthony McGowan, and are forthcoming from Leapfrog Press.Joan Maeda Trygg is an essay writer who is deeply interested in history (particularly of her family), popular culture, and the way writing shapes the way we think. She has published essays in Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, the Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, the 2017 St. Paul Almanac, and This Was 2020: Minnesotans Write About Pandemics and Social Justice in a Historic Year. She was chosen for the 2013 Beyond the Pure Grant from Intermedia Arts, and the 2017–2018 Loft Mentor series. She lives in St. Paul.Lauren K. Watel's debut book of prose poetry was awarded the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and will be published in the fall of 2024 by Sarabande Books. Her essay “Hunger,” the Honorable Mention of the 2021 Summer Essay Contest, appeared in Prairie Schooner, and another essay is forthcoming in World Literature Today. Her fiction was most recently published in Pithead Chapel and is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Lake Effect, Abstract Magazine TV, Pembroke, Sugar House Review, and Birmingham Poetry Review and is forthcoming in Literary Imagination and JMWW. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.Andrew Westoll is the author of two books of literary nonfiction (The Riverbones and The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary), and one novel (The Jungle South of the Mountain). The Chimps won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction and was shortlisted for several other major books awards in Canada. Andrew holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, is a Gold National Magazine Award winner, and teaches Creative Writing and English at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Andrew's fourth book, The Zoo at the End of the World, is forthcoming from Knopf Canada.Wendy Willis has published two books of poems, a book of essays, and a textbook. Her last two books, These are Strange Times, My Dear, and A Long Late Pledge were finalists for the Oregon Book Award. Wendy is also a lawyer and the founding director of Oregon's Kitchen Table, a statewide community engagement program housed at Portland State University.Kim Wyatt lives in California's backcountry. Her work has appeared in Best American Travel Writing, Creative Nonfiction, and The Normal School.

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