Aidan Forster is a queer poet and writer from Greenville, South Carolina. He is the author of the chapbooks Exit Pastoral (YesYes Books, 2019) and Wrong June (Honeysuckle Press, 2020). His work appears in or is forthcoming from The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets 2017, BOAAT, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Teen Vogue, and Tin House, among others. He reads poetry for Muzzle and serves as an Associate Editor at Sibling Rivalry Press. A graduate of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities’ creative writing program, he studies Literary Arts and Public Health at Brown University.
Kathleen Nalley
Kathleen Nalley is a poet, teacher, freelance writer, and bookseller. She’s the author of the poetry collections Written in Dirt, Gutterflower, American Sycamore, and Nesting Doll, and has published poetry, essays, and book reviews in literary journals across the country. She holds an MFA from Converse College, teaches literature and writing at Clemson University, finds books their forever homes at M. Judson Booksellers, is a frequent contributor to several regional magazines, and serves on the Emrys Foundation Board. www.kathleennalley.com
Deno Trekas
Deno Trakas is the Laura and Winston Hoy Professor of English and director of the writing center at Wofford College. He has published fiction and poetry in journals and anthologies, two chapbooks of poems, a memoir entitled Because Memory Isn't Eternal: A Story of Greeks in Upstate South Carolina, and a novel, Messenger from Mystery. He's a five-time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project Prize and a recipient of the South Carolina Academy of Authors Fellowship in Fiction.
John Pursley
John Pursley III teaches at Clemson University, where he directs the Clemson Literary Festival. He is the author of the poetry collection, If You Have Ghosts and the chapbooks, Supposing, for Instance, Here in the Space-Time Continuum, A Story without Poverty, A Conventional Weather, and When, By the Titanic. He is an editor at Burnside Review and South Carolina Review. His work has appeared in Poetry, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
Sarah Blackman
Sarah Blackman is a poet, fiction and creative non-fiction author originally from the Washington D.C area. She graduated from Washington College, summa cum laude, with a BA in English, minor Creative Writing, and earned her MFA from the University of Alabama in 2007 with a primary concentration in fiction and a secondary concentration in poetry. She is the Director of Creative Writing at the Fine Arts Center, an arts dedicated public high school in Greenville, South Carolina. Her poetry and prose has been published in a number of journals and magazines, including The Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Oxford American Magazine and The Missouri Review among others. She has been featured on the Poetry Daily website and anthologized in the Poets Against the War Anthology, Best New American Voices, 2006, Metawritings; Toward a Theory of Nonfiction, and xoOrpheus: Fifty New Myths which was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2014. Blackman is the co-fiction editor of DIAGRAM, the online journal of experimental prose, poetry and schematics and the second longest running online magazine in the country, and the founding editor of Crashtest, an online magazine for high school age writers which she edits alongside her students at the Fine Arts Center. She is a fiction reviewer for Kirkus and serves as an International Examiner for the Masters program in Creative Writing at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her story collection Mother Box was the winner of the 2012 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize and was published by FC2 in 2013. Her novel, Hex, was published by the same press in April, 2016. In 2018 she joined the board of FC2.