About the Authors

Blue Earth Country: Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Boston Literary Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Ghost City Review, Levitate, Yellow Medicine Review, Fifth on the Fifth, Drunk Monkeys, and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. He lives with his wonderful wife Kelly in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Thank You For Being Here: Zachary T. Gwynn lives in Minneapolis, where he writes through the winters while crafting grand plans for summertime.

The Space between Two Very's: Susan L. Leary’s poetry and prose have been published in Arcturus (Chicago Review of Books), Posit Journal, Whale Road Review, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, and Pretty Owl Poetry. She is the author of "Contraband Paradise" (Main Street Rag, forthcoming February 2021) as well as the chapbook "This Girl, Your Disciple" (Finishing Line Press), which was a finalist for The Heartland Review Press Chapbook Prize and a semi-finalist for the Elyse Wolf Prize. She teaches English Composition at the University of Miami.

The Clearing: B.P. Herrington is a native of the Big Thicket region of Texas. His studies took him to the University of London and the Royal Academy of Music. He is an emerging writer whose work has recently appeared in Post Road Magazine, Pamplemousse, and Adelaide Magazine.

It's Only a Tree: Mialise Carney (@mialisec) is a writer and MFA student at California State University, Fresno. She is an editor at The Normal School, and her writing has appeared in Hobart, Brevity Blog, and Atlas and Alice, among others. Read more of her work at mialisecarney.com.