Natalie Eilbert is the author of Indictus, winner of Noemi Press’s 2016 Poetry Prize, which published in January 2018, as well as the poetry collection, Swan Feast (Bloof Books, 2015). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Granta, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2016 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at University of Wisconsin–Madison and is the founding editor of The Atlas Review.

 

Donald Illich's work has appeared in literary journals such as The Iowa Review, LIT, Nimrod, Passages North, Rattle, and Sixth Finch.  He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and received a scholarship from the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference.  He won Honorable Mention in the Washington Prize book contest and was a “Discovery”/Boston Review 2008 Poetry Contest semifinalist.  Gold Wake Press named his full-length manuscript a finalist during their 2015 open reading.  He self-published a chapbook, Rocket Children, in 2012, and published another chapbook in 2016, The Art of Dissolving (Finishing Line Press).  His full-length manuscript, Chance Bodies, will be published in 2018 by The Word Works.  He is a writer-editor who lives and works in Rockville, Maryland. 

 

Meg Ronan is the author of the obligatory garnish argument (SpringGun Press) and the chapbook The Friendship Blog. She is a cancer moon and she works at Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. She has a lot of emotional needs.