Marianne Kunkel, assistant professor of Creative Writing and Publishing at Missouri Western State University, is the author of HILLARY, MADE UP and THE LAUGHING GAME. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. While earning her Ph.D. at Nebraska, she was the managing editor of Prairie Schooner and the African Poetry Book Fund.

Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of QUITE MAD: AN AMERICAN PHARMA MEMOIR and the poetry chapbooks REGENERATE: POEMS OF MAD WOMEN, LEAVING TRACKS: A PRAIRIE GUIDE, and THE ASTRONAUT CHECKS HIS WATCH. She holds a PhD in English with a focus in creative writing and women’s and gender studies from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She has worked as Prairie Schooner’s Nonfiction Assistant Editor since 2011 and is an assistant professor at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.