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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three collections of essays鈥擳he Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the book of food essays Bite By Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees and the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments. She has written five poetry collections including Night Owl and Oceanic. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, a Mississippi Arts Council grant, NAAEE鈥檚 2024 Pepe Marcos-Iga Award for Innovation in Environmental Education, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. For a decade, she served as the poetry editor for Orion and Sierra magazines. A professor of English and Creative Writing for over twenty five years, she also serves as a firefly guide for Mississippi State Parks.

Vanessa Lillie is the USA Today bestselling author of seven thriller novels, including Blood Sisters and The Bone Thief, both centered on the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, selected as best of the year by the Washington Post, Amazon editors, Elle Magazine, among others. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she鈥檚 the creator and coauthor of the # 1 Audible Charts bestseller and ITW award nominated, Young Rich Widows series, set in Providence, RI where she lives with her husband, son and pugapoo, Violet. Originally from Miami, Oklahoma, she is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and proudly Two-Spirit.  She is a board member of the Indigenous-led Tomaquag Museum, sharing history and resiliency of the tribes of Southern New England.

Deborah Jackson Taffa is the award-winning author of Whiskey Tender. A finalist for the 2024 National Book Award, and the 2025 Carnegie Medal of Excellence, the book received a 2024 Southwest Book Award, and a 2025 International Latino Book Award. Named a top ten book of 2024 by The Atlantic and Time, the memoir hit Esquire, Elle, Oprah Daily, and many other notable lists as well. A 2024 NEA Fellow and winner of the PEN Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History, Deborah is the director of the MFA CW program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. She earned her MFA at the NWP in Iowa City.

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023). She is a recipient of a National Endowments for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. Her work鈥攊ncluding poems, essays, and cultural criticism鈥攈as appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The New Republic, and Sewanee Review, among others. Priest is on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh鈥檚 MFA program in Creative Writing, and a curator at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics. Her second collection of poems is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2027.

Steve Yarbrough is the author of twelve books, most recently the novel Stay Gone Days (2022).  His other books are the nonfiction title Bookmarked: Larry McMurtry鈥檚 The Last Picture Show , the novels The Unmade World, The Realm of Last Chances, Safe from the Neighbors, The End of California, Prisoners of War, Visible Spirits and The Oxygen Man, and the short story collections Veneer, Mississippi History and Family Men.  His work has been published in several foreign languages, including Dutch, Italian, Japanese and Polish, and it has also appeared in Ireland, Canada, and the U.K.  He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Award and the Robert Penn Warren Award. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The Unmade World won the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction.

Margot Livesey's first book, a collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin Canada in 1986. Since then Margot has published nine novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona, The House on Fortune Street, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Mercury, and The Boy in the Field. Her tenth novel, The Road from Belhaven, will be published in February 2024 by Knopf. The Hidden Machinery, a collection of essays on writing, was published by Tin House Books in 2017. She has taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon, Cleveland State, Emerson College, the Iowa Writers鈥� Workshop, Tufts University, the University of California at Irvine, the Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers, and Williams College. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the Massachusetts Artists鈥� Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Scott Gould is the author of seven books, including The Hammerhead Chronicles, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction, and Things That Crash, Things That Fly, which won a 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. His other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award, an IPPY Award for Fiction, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Pithead Chapel, Garden & Gun, and New Stories from the South, among others. He lives in Sans Souci, South Carolina.

Tommy Hays is the author of five novels, including The Marriage Bed,  just released by Blair. His other novels are The Pleasure Was Mine (St Martin鈥檚 Press), In the Family Way (Random House), Sam鈥檚 Crossing (Atheneum) and YA novel What I Came to Tell You (Egmont USA). Inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, Hays was named to the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the governor of North Carolina. He鈥檚 retired Executive Director of the Great Smokies Writing Program and Lecturer Emeritus at UNC Asheville. He received his BA in English from Furman University and an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. 

Shane Hawk (Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) is a horror writer and creator of the Native Horror Index. He serves as a contributing editor at Counterpoint Press, where he acquires and edits works by Indigenous writers. His writing career began in 2020 with the release of his short story collection Anoka. Hawk is the co-editor of the bestselling anthology series Never Whistle at Night and co-writer of the horror stage play The Land Has Spoken. He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and daughter.

Ed Southern is the editor of the anthology The Devil's Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina (Blair, 2025) and the author of Fight Songs (Blair, 2021), a finalist for the SIBA Book Prize in Creative Nonfiction. His work has appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Cold Mountain Review, StorySouth, the North Carolina Literary Review, Salvation South, the Asheville Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Since 2008 he has been the executive director of the North Carolina Writers' Network.

Alice Martin is an Assistant Professor of English Studies at 蘑菇短视频. She received her PhD in American Literature from Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in the Carolina Quarterly, Appalachian Heritage, Triangle House Review, and elsewhere. Westward Women, published by St. Martin's Press in March 2026, is her debut novel.

Catherine Carter is the author of four full-length poetry collections with Louisiana State University press, the most recent of which is By Stone and Needle (LSU Press 2025) and two chapbooks with Jacar Press; she is also co-editor and co-translator, with Brian Gastle, of the first full-length verse translation into modern English of John Gower鈥檚 33,000-line Middle English poem The Lover鈥檚 Confession (Medieval Institute Publications, 2024). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Orion, Ploughshares, RHINO, Asheville Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, NCLR, and Best American Poetry 2009, among others. She is a professor at 蘑菇短视频; on a good day, she can re-queen a hive of honeybees and roll a whitewater kayak, and on less-good days, she collects stings, rock-rash, and multiple contusions.

 

 

Jos茅 Ordu帽a's work grapples with the realities of being an immigrant in a post 9/11 United States. His first book, titled The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement, was published by Beacon Press. You can read his essays and short stories in Timothy McSweeney鈥檚 Quarterly Concern, The Believer, The Nation, The New England Review and elsewhere. 

Stacy Jane Grover is a writer from Ohio. Her essays have appeared in Salon, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, Bitch Media, Belt Magazine, and the book anthologies Sweeter Voices Still and The Columbus Anthology from Belt Publishing. Her 2021 essay 鈥淭he Girl in the Mall鈥� garnered a 2022 Best American Essays notable mention. Her first book, Tar Hollow Trans: Essays was a Finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction and a Finalist for the 2024 Weatherford Award for Appalachian Nonfiction. She was recently voted the number #2 author in Columbus, Ohio by readers of Columbus Underground Magazine. She received her MA in Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati and is a rural Appalachian community college professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her second book of essays is forthcoming.

Lauren Yero is a Cuban American writer living in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Born in Florida, she received her BA from Davidson College and her MA in Environmental Literature from the University of Nevada, Reno. Her desire to connect more deeply with her Latinx heritage led her to study and work in Spain, Argentina, Cuba, and Chile, where she drew inspiration for Under This Forgetful Sky, her debut novel.