Elizabeth Bernays grew up in Australia, became a British Government Scientist in London, a Professor in Berkeley, and Regents' Professor at the University of Arizona. She has published forty nonfiction stories and her memoir, Six Legs Walking, won the 2020 Arizona/New Mexico Book Award.
Vivian I. Bikulege is a Pushcart nominee and Gilbert-Chappell poet in western North Carolina. Her work appears in Presence, Broad River Review, The Petigru Review, Pinesong, and the upcoming storySouth. Her essay, “Cuttings,” will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in Reading as a Writer by Erin Pushman. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte in non-fiction.
Christina Rivera Cogswell's essays are published or forthcoming at Orion, Kenyon Review, Terrain.org, Bat City Review, Catapult, and elsewhere. She credits the fragmentation of her writing to her young children and is currently finishing her first book of essays—a collection of ecofeminist reflections on motherhood in the face of climate crisis. You can follow Christina on Instagram @seekingsol.
Tom Farrell is a lawyer who lives and works in Pittsburgh. He writes and teaches about criminal practice, ethics, and the lives of the individuals with whom his work intersects.
John Gifford is a writer and photographer based in Oklahoma City. His books include Red Dirt Country, a literary meditation on the Oklahoma landscape and the rich biodiversity of the southern Great Plains, and Pecan America, immersion reporting on the industry, ecology, and culture of America's indigenous tree nut. johngifford.net.
Peyton Harvey is a writer currently based in NYC, and is a second-year nonfiction candidate at Columbia University. Her publications include Reed Magazine's Gabriele Rico award for nonfiction, and numerous book reviews for ZYZZYVA literary magazine's online blog, where she was an editorial intern. She is currently working on a hybrid biography- memoir, exploring her fascination with the actress Liv Ullmann. @peytonlharvey
Dr. Ping Wang came from Shanghai, earned her BA in Beijing University, PhD at NYU, published 15 books of poetry and prose: My Name Is Immigrant, Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi, among others. She’s recipient of NEA, Bush, Lannan and McKnight Fellowships, director of Kinship of Rivers project. She’s also a dancer, photographer and installation artist. Her multi-media installations were shown at colleges, galleries, museums, river confluences and mountains around the world. She’s the Emerita Professor of Poetry, Macalester College. www.wangping.com
Anna Baker Smith grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, and now lives in Western Massachusetts. Her writing has appeared in Essay Daily, PANK, Massachusetts Review, After the Art, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in fiction from UMass Amherst where she teaches part-time. Twitter and IG: @innergothic
Asha Thanki's work has appeared in The Southern Review, Platypus Press’ wildness, The Common, and more. She won the 2019 Arkansas International’s Emerging Writers Prize and fourth prize of Zoetrope: All Story’s 2020 Short Fiction Competition. Her work has also received support from the Speculative Literature Foundation, Tin House, and more.
