Lee Matalone is the author of the novel HOME MAKING (Harper Perennial 2020). Her fiction has been featured in the The Offing, Denver Quarterly, Hobart, Joyland, Nat. Brut, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Bat City Review, among other places. Her essays and reporting have appeared in LitHub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the National, and Flavorwire, among others. She has been a contributor to the Tin House, Bread Loaf, and Sewanee writers conferences, and has been awarded residencies at Pocoapoco and Art Farm. Home Making is her first novel. She is a lecturer at Clemson University.
Shannon Greene
Shannon is a writer, editor, and librarian with a B.A. in English and a Masters in Library and Information Science. Her work can be seen around the web at Mutha Magazine and in print in Folk Rebellion's The Dispatch, as well as GCLS's Library Now magazine, at which she is also a contributing editor. She is a co-creator and writer at the podcast Strange South, and working on a novel set in a fictional Western NC town called Panther Valley about a girl who communes with snakes, carries a knife and a deck of tarot cards, and apprentices an animal control specialist named Hez. Shannon craves a good research project, writes with her head and heart, and loves editing to take someone else's writing to the next level.
Heather Marshall
Heather Marshall is an author and teacher whose work is published in literary journals in the United States and in Scotland. Her novel, The Thorn Tree, was published in 2014. She is currently finishing work on a second novel about secrets, uncovering the truth, and belonging.
Eshani Surya
Originally from the Northeast United States, Eshani Surya is a writer based in Greenville, SC. Her writing has appeared in [PANK], Catapult, Paper Darts, Joyland, and Literary Hub, among others. She has won the New Delta Review Ryan R. Gibbs Award for Flash Fiction, has been longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Short Fictions, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is also the creator of The Marrow Scripts, a project based around telling stories of disability and chronic illness. Eshani is a Flash Fiction Reader at Split Lip Magazine, and has previously served as the Flash Fiction Editor at Sonora Review and as an Associate Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Eshani holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she also taught undergraduates. She now teaches community workshops and provides coaching to writers both through formal means such as Adroit Magazine’s Summer Mentorship Program and on a freelance basis.
Josh Sorrells
Josh Sorrells is a fiction writer living in the upstate. When he’s not writing, he’s teaching high school English. If you ask him about his dogs, he’ll be happy to show you pictures.