Emily Flouton writes fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Tin House, DIAGRAM, Subtropics, Gay Magazine, Quarterly West, Passages North, Hobart, and other places. She won the 2020 Kurt Brown Fiction Prize from AWP and holds an MFA from Portland State University, where she won the Tom and Phyllis Burnam Scholarship.

Kieran Mundy is a writer from New England. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Joyland, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere, and has been recognized in Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2017 and 2019. She is the recipient of Gulf Coast's 2020 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, judged by Jenny Offill. She graduated in 2019 with an MFA in Fiction from the University of Oregon and has received funding for her work from the Vermont Studio Center. She currently lives in Bend, OR where she is at work on a short story collection.