Stacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter (Sundress 2021). Winner of the 2019 New South Writing Contest as well as Terrain.org’s 10th Annual Contest, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2018, Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, and other anthologies & journals. Visit her online at http://www.staceybalkun.com.

John Belk is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Utah University where he directs the Writing Program. His poetry has recently appeared in Sugar House Review, Crab Orchard Review, Madison Review, Salt Hill, Kestrel, Worcester Review, Sport Literate, Poetry South, and Arkansas Review among others.

Reilly D. Cox lives in the desert with felines & beloveds. They attended Washington College, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, & the University of Alabama, where they received their MFA. They are the author of The Death of Sargon the Gardner (Seven Kitchen Press) & have work available w/ Always Crashing, Cosmonauts Avenue, & elsewhere.

Caleb Coy is a freelance writer and editor living in Christiansburg, VA with his wife and two sons. He received his M.A. in English and M.A. in Education from Virginia Tech. His work has been published in Harpur Palate, The Common, and Flyway. He is the author of the 2015 novel, An Authentic Derivative.

Tricia Knoll is a Vermont eco-poet. Her collection Ocean’s Laughter looks at change over time in a small town on Oregon’s north coast. Broadfork Farm chronicles the people and creatures of a small organic farm in Trout Lake, Washington. For more poetry visit triciaknoll.com.

Holly Painter is the author of Excerpts from a Natural History (Titus, 2015) and My Pet Sounds Off: Translating the Beach Boys (Finishing Line, 2020). She teaches at the University of Vermont and is working on a book of cryptic crossword poems and an interview project about obsolete jobs.

Josephine Pino was a child in Albuquerque, a young adult in many places, and currently resides in Oregon. She is a scientist by diploma, educator by heart, and writer by nature. She has published in Cathexis NW, High Shelf Press, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Anti-Languorous Project, and Raw Art Review.

Shannon Quinn is the author of two collections of poetry: Questions for Wolf and Nightlight for Children of Insomniacs. She is based out of Toronto. She recently wrote and co-produced an interactive digital poetics eco-myth with Griffin Epstein and Bryan Depuy. https://www.whosewoods.org/biophilia

Joyce Schmid's recent work has appeared in Literary Imagination, New Ohio Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, a previous issue of The Fourth River, and other journals and anthologies. She lives with her husband of over half a century in Palo Alto, California.

Laura-Gray Street is the author of Pigment and Fume and Shift Work, and co-editor of The Ecopoetry Anthology and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia. She is an associate professor of English; directs the Visiting Writers Series; and edits Revolute, the MFA’s literary journal, at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA.

Amie Whittemore is the author of the poetry collection Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press) and the 2020 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her poems and prose have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Nashville Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches English at Middle Tennessee State University.