Erin Pesut earned a degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared on Vermont Public Radio and in Legacy Magazine, The Peal,& Owl & Spade, and Classifieds: An Anthology of Prose Poems. She was a finalist for the inaugural CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award. Born in South Carolina, she now lives in Vermont.
Jimin Seo is a Korean immigrant and lives between Manhattan and Cochecton, NY with his partner, Gabriel. He teaches at Baruch College and is literary editor of the arts publication White Zinfandel. He received his MFA from Columbia University and was Richard Howard’s longtime assistant. His poem in response to artist Shaun Leonardo’s exhibition The Breath of Empty Space was recently on view at The Bronx Museum.
Shelby Wardlaw is a writer, teacher, and translator from Austin, Texas. Her fiction, non-fiction and Russian poetry translations have appeared in Drafthorse, Interim, Northwest Review, Hunger Mountain, Fiction Southeast, and iō Literary Journal. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Pigeon Pages Fiction Contest and was a finalist for both the 2021 Salamander Fiction Prize and the 2021 McGlinn Prize for Fiction. Shelby was selected as one of the top five finalists in The Writer magazine’s 2020 Short Story Contest and was praised by their editorial staff as a “stunningly talented writer.” Shelby is currently working on her first novel.