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Elliot Ackerman is the author of several books, most recently The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He divides his time between New York City and Washington, DC.

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of nine works of (mostly) fiction, including, most recently, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. He teaches frequently at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.

Lea Carpenter is a novelist and screenwriter; her new book, Ilium, is forthcoming from Knopf.

Jos Charles is the author of a Year & other poems and feeld (Milkweed Editions)—a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Poetry Series—and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press). She resides in Long Beach, California, with her best friend and cat.

Rickey Fayne is a writer from rural West Tennessee. His work seeks to reanimate the experiences, beliefs, and language of his ancestors to better understand the surreality of his present. His writing appears or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Joyland, and Guernica. He has received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, and the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. Currently, he is at work on his first novel.

Pamela Royston Macfie lives in Sewanee and Maine. She retired in June from Sewanee’s Department of English, where, as the Samuel R. Williamson Distinguished University Professor, she taught Shakespeare and the Literature of Memoir.

Tomás Q. Morín is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways. He is coeditor, with Mari L’Esperance, of the anthology Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda.

D. Nurkse’s latest book is A Country of Strangers, a collection of new and selected poems from Knopf.

Carl Phillips’s new book of poems is Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (FSG 2022). His prose book My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing is available from Yale University Press.

Robin Romm is the author of the books The Mercy Papers, The Mother Garden, Double Bind, and a forthcoming story collection, Radical Empathy. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, O magazine, Tin House, One Story, Wired, and many other magazines. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family.

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