Contributors' Notes
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Erin Block
Erin Block works as a librarian and freelance writer. She is the author of The View from Coal Creek (Whitefish Press) and By a Thread (Whitefish Press), and her work has been published in The Rumpus, The Columbia Review, Guernica, and Gray's Sporting Journal, among others. She lives in a cabin in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where she hunts, fishes, forages, and gardens.
Michael Dinkel
Michael Dinkel studied art and creative writing at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota and at the University of Alaska in Anchorage where he lives. His work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Orion Magazine, About Place Journal, The Lower Stump Lake Review, and other publications.
J. Malcolm Garcia
J. Malcolm Garcia is the author of The Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul (Beacon 2009); What Wars Leave Behind: The Faceless and Forgotten (University of Missouri Press 2014); Without A Country: The Untold Story of America's Deported Veterans (Skyhorse Press 2017); Riding through Katrina with the [End Page 147] Red Baron's Ghost: A Memoir of Friendship, Family and a Life Writing Stories (Skyhorse Press 2018); and The Fruit Of All My Grief: Lives In the Shadows of the American Dream (Seven Stories Press 2019). Garcia is a recipient of the Studs Terkel Prize for writing about the working classes and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism. His work has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best American NonreQuired Reading, and Best American Essays.
Megan Harlan
Megan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays, winner of the 2019 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction and published by the University of Georgia Press in Fall 2020. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika, Alaska Quarterly Review, Arts & Letters, and Cincinnati Review, among other journals, and have been cited as distinguished in Best American Essays 2018 and 2019. Mapmaking, her first book, won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry (BkMk Press/New Letters). She works as a writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ren Jones
Ren Jones earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the College of Charleston. She received an honorable mention for the 2020 AWP Intro Journals Prize. This is her first publication.
Emma Kaiser
Emma Kaiser is the winner of the Norton Writers Prize. Her work has appeared in Great River Review, Rock & Sling, and Stoneboat, among other places, and she is the author of two nonfiction books for children. She is currently a creative nonfiction MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota.
Brenda Miller & Julie Marie Wade
Brenda Miller teaches in the MFA program at Western Washington University, and Julie Marie Wade teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University. Their collaborative essays have previously appeared [End Page 148] in Rappahannock Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, River Teeth, Punctuate, Phoebe, Tupelo Quarterly, and Kenyon Review. They have also been reprinted in the anthologies The Spirit of Disruption: Landmark Essays from The Normal School (Outpost 19, 2018) and They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Their first co-written collection, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, won the 2019 Cleveland State University Press Nonfiction Book Award, selected by Hanif Abdurraqib, and is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Press in 2021.
Micah Perks
Micah Perks is the author of a short story collection, a memoir and two novels. The most recent novel, What Becomes Us, was a winner of an Independent Publisher's Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Micah lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she directs the creative writing program at UCSC.
Molly Rideout
Molly Rideout is a Midwestern writer whose work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Mississippi Review, Tampa Review, and Bluestem. Her chapbook Transient was published in 2019 by Antenna::Paper Machine. She has received grants or other recognitions for her interdisciplinary writing installations in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio, from Poets & Writers, Iowa Public Radio, the Ohio State University Center for Folklore, and the Wormfarm Institute. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University and currently...
