Abigail Hickman happily lives with her husband and her Netflix account in North Carolina. Her book, This, That and the Third, will be released this spring. She writes for Asheville’s local, indie paper the Mountain Xpress.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American poet of Palestinian, Syrian, and Jordanian heritage. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming from journals including Blackbird, Borderlands Texas Review, Lunch Ticket, Indianola Review, Sukoon, Mizna and the Ofi Press Mexico. Two of her poems have been nominated for the 2016 Pushcart Prize. Her first book of…

Tonya Sauer is a nurse living near Chicago, Illinois. She has poems published and forthcoming in Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, Bird’s Thumb, The Tishman Review, and others.

Rebecca Macijeski is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Nebraska and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She currently serves as an Assistant Editor in Poetry for Hunger Mountain and Prairie Schooner. She has attended artist residencies with The Ragdale Foundation and Art Farm Nebraska. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming…

Marty McConnell lives in Chicago, and received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has recently appeared in Best American Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, and Mid-American Review. Her first full-length collection, wine for a shotgun, was published by EM Press.

Sierra Jacob is an MFA candidate at the University of Montana, where she received the Richard Hugo Memorial Scholarship for poetry. Her poetry has appeared and is forthcoming in LUMINA, Yemassee, Sonora Review, The Louisville Review, Cream City Review, Pacifica Literary Review, and others. She was born and raised in Ha`iku, Hawai`i.

J. T. Townley has published in Collier’s, Harvard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Threepenny Review, and other magazines and journals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MPhil in English from Oxford University, and he teaches at the University of Virginia.

James Valvis has placed poems or stories in Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, Louisville Review, Ploughshares, Potomac Review, River Styx, The Sun, and many others. His poetry has been featured in Verse Daily. His fiction was chosen for Sundress Best of the Net. A former US Army soldier, he lives near Seattle and collects toy…

Born in 1983, Seyed Ali Shojaei is the recipient of an Excellence Award from The Season Book Festival for The Stars which Are Not Very Far, The Quranic Stories Festival Award for Falling in Love at the Time of Inscriptions, an Excellence Award from The Children and Adolescents Festival for What if the Snowman Won’t Melt?, and a…