Stacy Carlson is a novelist, naturalist, and educator. Publishers Weekly called her debut novel, Among the Wonderful, “Intelligent, engrossing, and utterly unique.” Stacy’s essays and fiction have appeared in Tin House, Post Road, Inkwell, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships and residencies from the Mesa Refuge, The Arctic Circle, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Signal Fire. Her background includes work as a historical ecologist, fish cannery worker, hot springs caretaker, and hiking guide in Big Sur. She grew up between mountains and sea in the Pacific Northwest and has lived in New England, New York, Northern California, and the Upper Midwest.

Mubanga Kalimamukwento has published several acclaimed books of fiction and poetry, including the novel The Mourning Bird (Jacana), the chapbook unmarked graves (Tusculum University Press), the story collection Obligations to the Wounded (University of Pittsburgh Press), and the poetry collection children of small places(forthcoming from Holy Cow! Press). Her books have won a Minnesota Book Award, the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction, and the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, among others, and she is the first African writer to receive the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. She lives with her family in the Twin Cities.