Rebecca Hazelton is the author of Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012), winner of the 2011 Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry, and Vow, from Cleveland State University Press. She was the 2010-11 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Creative Writing Institute and…

Lisa Cron is the author of Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers From the Very First Sentence (Ten Speed Press); her video tutorial Writing Fundamentals: The Craft of Story can be found at Lynda.com. She spent a decade in publishing as a publicist and editor, has been a…

Christi Craig is a native Texan living in Wisconsin, working by day as a sign language interpreter and moonlighting as a writer. She leads a creative writing class at a retirement center and a roundtable at Redbird-Redoak Writing. She is a regular contributor at Write It Sideways and an assistant editor for Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing.…

Sarah Baughman is a regular contributor to Writeitsideways.com. Her collection of creative non-fiction essays won the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest in 2010, and her essays have also appeared in Literary Mama, Rhubarb, Traverse, and on the Matador Network as part of the 2012 Glimpse Correspondents Program. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two children.

Eva Langston received her MFA from the University of New Orleans, and her fiction has been published in The Normal School, The Sand Hill Review, and the GW Review, among others. In 2009 she won third place in the Playboy College Fiction contest, and in 2011 she received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Currently she works as a Skype tutor for…

Catherine is the author of 22 published and forthcoming books. Her newer novels are When I Found You, Second Hand Heart, Don’t Let Me Go, When You Were Older and Always Chloe and Other Stories. New Kindle editions of her backlist titles Funerals for Horses, Earthquake Weather and Other Stories, Electric God, and Walter’s Purple Heart…

Jeff Goins, author of Wrecked, is a writer who lives just outside of Nashville, TN with his family. His next book, The In-Between, is about what we do with waiting and is due out August of 2013. You can visit him online at goinswriter.com.

Josh Hanagarne is the author of The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Strength, Faith, and the Power of Family. His book was selected as one of Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers books for Summer 2013, was listed as one of Huffington Post’s Most Anticipated Reads of 2013, and recently appeared in…

Carol Carpenter’s poems and stories have appeared in numerous online and print publications, including: Fjords, Anderbo.com, Barnwood,The Pedestal, Soundzine, Orbis (UK) and Quiddity. Her work has been exhibited by art galleries and produced as podcasts (Connecticut Review and Bound Off).  Her chapbook, The Empress of Patton Avenue, was published online by Heartsounds Press. She received…