LISA DORDAL holds a Master of Divinity and a Master of Fine Arts (in poetry), both from Vanderbilt University, and teaches in the English Department at Vanderbilt. She is the author of Mosaic of the Dark, which was a finalist for the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, Water Lessons (April 2022), and Next Time You Come Home (forthcoming 2023), all from Black Lawrence Press. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, the Robert Watson Poetry Prize,
and the Betty Gabehart Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in The Sun, Narrative, Image, The New Ohio Review, Best New Poets, Greensboro Review, RHINO, Ninth Letter, and CALYX. Herwebsite is lisadordal.com.
ANDREA REXILIUS is the author of: Sister Urn (Sidebrow, 2019), New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks, Séance (Coconut Books, 2014), To Be Human (Horseless Press, 2010), and Afterworld (above/ground press, 2020). She earned an M.F.A. in Poetry from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), and a Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2010). Andrea is the Program Director for Regis University’s Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing.
SHOSHANA SUREK earned her MA and MFA in Creative Writing from Regis University in Denver. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have been published in literary magazines in the United States, Canada, Australia, England, and South Korea. Shoshana received a Fiction Pushcart Prize nomination in 2017 and a Poetry Pushcart Prize nomination in 2020. She is a 2019 Curt Johnson Prose Award finalist from december Magazine and placed third in the 2020 Voyage First Chapter’s Contest, judged by NYT Bestselling Author, Melissa de la Cruz. She was a first reader for Vestal Review and Inverted Syntax literary magazines. She and her family reside in the
beautiful foothills of Colorado.