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Lee Busby (poetry)

Lee received his M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, VT, and has spent his writing career working alongside such award-winning writers as Terrance Hayes, Marie Howe, David Wojahn and Richard Jackson. He has published poems in The Gingko Tree Review, Connotation Press, Numero Cinq, Moon City Review, Elder Mountain and scissors & spackle, among others. His chapbook, Wild Strawberries, is available from Finishing Line Press.   Lee's first full-length collection, 5th Generation Immigrant, was published in the summer of 2014 by ELJ Publications. Lee is the co-author, along with poet Ian Bodkin, of the book Fingertip Scripture.

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Chaz Miller (poetry)

Chaz has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has worked with such poets as Charles Harper Webb, Mary Ruefle, and William Olsen, among others. His work has appeared in Moon City Review, Ozarks Watch, Bayou Magazine, and The Southern Review.

Rich Farrell (fiction)

Richard Farrell is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work, including fiction, memoir, essays, interviews and book reviews, has appeared or is forthcoming in The Forge, Potomac Review, Hunger Mountain, New Plains Review, upstreet, Descant, Contrary, Newfound, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Grossmont College and at San Diego Writers, Ink. His first novel, The Falling Woman, was published by Algonquin Books in 2020.

Steve Rucker (creative non-fiction)

Steve received his M.F.A in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and his M.A. in Writing from Missouri State University, where he taught creative writing. He has published his work in Numro Cinq, Elder Mountain, and Upstreet ("A Terminal Chord" was listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays of 2013 anthology), and his essay regarding the life and work of Raymond Carver appears in Research Guide to American Literature: Contemporary Literature 1970 Present. Steve writes from a well-lit front room in Springfield, Missouri.

Jennifer Murvin (fiction)

Jennifer Murvin’s chapbook SHE SAYS will be released in 2023 by Small Harbor Publishing. Her stories, essays, and graphic narrative have appeared in DIAGRAM, Southampton Review, River Styx, Catamaran Literary Reader, CutBank, Indiana Review, Post Road, American Short Fiction, The Sun, Mid-American Review, The Cincinnati Review, Bellingham Review, Phoebe, Baltimore Review, and other journals. Jen owns the indie bookstore Pagination Bookshop and is an Assistant Professor of English at Missouri State University. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Find more at https://www.jennifermurvin.com/.

Katch Campbell (poetry)

Katch Campbell is a connector. With a masters degree in Science and an MFA in poetry. She creates metaphors for her patients and others about the world around us. Her work is an inquiry on the atrocities we commit consciously and unconsciously against each other and the universe. Katch serves as Treasurer of the board and is a permanent faculty member at the River Pretty Writing Retreat, a bi-annual workshop in the Ozarks. Near home she is host for the Madd Poets Society’s Intersections series, “Where Poetry and Society Meet.” She has co-led immersive poetry trips to Slovenia and Italy, and used to edit for ZoMag.com