Daniel R. Ball holds an MFA from Stonecoast in Maine, where he studied under Rick Bass. His writing has appeared in FLDQ, The Whitefish Review, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife, Melissa, in New York.

John Hazlett is the author of My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics (1998). He has published essays on travel, first-person narratives, and American literature, as well as book, theater, and film reviews. He lives in New Orleans and works as a guide for Louisiana Lost Lands Environmental Tours, a swamp and wetlands educational organization.

Michelle Menting’s flash nonfiction has appeared in New South, Punctuate: A Nonfiction Magazine, Superstition Review, New Delta Review, and Quarter After Eight, among others. She is the author of Leaves Surface Like Skin (Terrapin Books) and two poetry chapbooks. Originally from the upper Great Lakes, she now lives in Maine.