Erin Elkins Radcliffe is a third-generation oldest child and the author of “Station of Rain” (dancing girl press) and “Bottomland” (Sundress Publications). Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit, Tupelo Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Indiana, she now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her family.

Rosanne Singer been a teaching artist in the Maryland schools and part of small arts teams working with wounded warriors and their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and with pediatric patients at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Currently she is getting her MFA at the University of Baltimore. Recent work has appeared online in The Baltimore Fishbowl and Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and is forthcoming in Allium and 1-70 Review. Social media handles are Twitter: @poetsinger and Instagram: @rosannesinger5.

Lou Terlikowski is an Appalachian poet who cannot stop thinking about family, inheritance, and the beauty of her home. She loves the mountains and is grateful for the time she spent earning an MFA at the University of Alabama and the University of Oregon. Her work can be found in Blue Earth Review, Screen Door Review, Psychopomp, and in small piles throughout her house.

Dawn Terpstra is a poet, writer and beekeeper from Iowa. Her journal publications include Cities of the Plains: An Anthology of Iowa Poets and Artists, Pratik: Magazine of Contemporary Literature, Midwest Quarterly, Halfway Down the Stairs, Verse Daily, 2River, Ekphrastic Review and SWWIM. She is the author of a chapbook Songs from the Summer Kitchen. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is a graduate student working toward her MFA in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop. She is the Poetry Editor of River Heron Review. Learn more at dawnterpstra.com.

Born and raised along the Mississippi River, Kate Welsh now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA from Barnard College and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where she was the Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow in 2021. In addition to Grist, her work can be found in or is forthcoming from Variant Lit, Epiphany, SWWIM Every Day, and West Trade Review, among others. She is the co-founder/co-editor of The Swannanoa Review. www.kate-welsh.com

Shou Jie Eng is an architectural designer and writer. Originally from Singapore, he runs Left Field Projects, a design and research practice located in Hartford, CT. His writing has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest, Softblow, Speculative Nonfiction, and the anthology New Singapore Poetries. He teaches drawing and representation at the Rhode Island School of Design.