Emily Lackey's stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, The Literary Review, Green Mountains Review, The Rumpus, and Longreads, among others. She lives and writes in Western Massachusetts and teaches writing workshops at Writers in Progress.
Dori Ostermiller is the founding director of Writers in Progress, and the author of a novel, Outside the Ordinary World (MIRA, 2010) which was an Indie Next pick and an MLA must-read, published in several countries. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Bellingham Review, Alligator Juniper, Bellowing Ark, Peregrine, Calliope, Roanoke Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, The American, The Massachusetts Review and The Rumpus. Dori has worked for over two decades as an editor, and has taught literature and writing at the University of Massachusetts, Westfield State College, Springfield College, Holyoke Community College and Bay Path College. The recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship, a Tobias Wolf Fiction award, and a Walker Gibson award, Dori lives in Northampton with her husband, two daughters, and a pampered Border Collie/Lab named Sammy.
Mary Warren Foulk has been published in journals including VoiceCatcher, Cathexis Northwest Press, Yes Poetry, Arlington Literary Journal (Gival Press), The Hollins Critic, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Los Angeles Poet Society, El Portal, Packingtown Review, Pine Hills Review, Palette Poetry, Visitant, Silkworm, Slab, and Steam Ticket, and the anthologies (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Publications) and My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems (Ghost City Press). Mary's chapbook, If I Could Write You a Happier Ending, was selected by Dancing Girl Press (2021) as part of their annual series featuring women poets, and her manuscript Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) won first place in The Poetry Box’s 2021 chapbook contest. An educator, writer, and activist, Mary lives in western Massachusetts with her wife and two children.