Janine Joseph is the author of Driving Without a License (Alice James Books, 2016), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Best American Experimental Writing, Kenyon Review Online, Hyphen, Best New Poets, Zócalo Public Square, and elsewhere. Her commissioned work for the Houston Grand Opera (HGOco) stage includes a libretto, From My Mother's Mother, and a song cycle, "On This Muddy Water": Voices from the Houston Ship Channel. She holds an MFA from New York University and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Janine lives in Ogden, UT, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University.

Eric Howerton is a graduate of the University of Houston’s Ph.D. in Creative Writing Program, an avid skiier, and vocalist for Crisis in Consciousness, a loud-music project based in Salt Lake City. He teaches English at Weber State University, is a Vice President and Board Member for Writers@Work, and is a former fiction editor for Gulf Coast. His work has appeared in Juked, The VOLTA blog, PANK online, The Masters Review, Night Train, Driftwood Press, and others. His novel—RedRedRedRed—received an honorable mention from the Utah Division of Arts & Humanities 2014 Original Writing Competition and, after a few more edits, will be on shelves sooner than you think.