Cory Hutchinson-Reuss grew up in Arkansas, earned her PhD in English from the University ofIowa, and now lives and writes in Iowa City. Her work has appeared in Timber, Slice, Memorious, Pangyrus, the Missouri Review online, Concision Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. A collaborative chapbook of her poems and the visual art of Giselle Simón was published in 2022 as part of the Prompt Press Gallery Series, and her first full-length collection of poems is forthcoming from Milk & Cake Press in 2025. She serves as an advisory council member for the non-profit Iowa City Poetry, as a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal, and as Associate Poetry Editor for Brink.

Enah Johnscott (filmmaker, TV director, screenplay writer; Cameroon) has written and directed The Fisherman's Diary, and directed the feature-length Half Heaven. His work has garnered him a first place in the screenplay category at the 2020 Africa Movie Academy Awards, and prizes at film festivals in Africa, UK, and Russia. His current screenwriting project centers on a boy with autism. He participates thanks to a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.