Dr. Stevie Edwards is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University and Poetry Editor of The South Carolina Review. Stevie’s poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of Quiet Armor (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Sadness Workshop (Button Poetry, 2018), Humanly (Small Doggies Press, 2015), and Good Grief (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012).

Sally O'Brien teaches at a public high school in Philadelphia; she lives with her husband & son within earshot of the Market-Frankford Line. Her poetry has previously appeared in Apiary, Duende, and Psaltery & Lyre. She is around on Bluesky @sallyohbrien.bsky.social.

Mark Abdon hails from Indianapolis, Indiana where he teaches Creative Writing at Indiana Wesleyan University. His stories are popping up in places like The Pinch Journal, Catamaran, X-R-A-Y, Chautauqua and others. He also reads for Harvard Review.