Raki Kopernik Bio:

Raki is a first generation American, queer, Jewish writer. She is the author of The Things You Left and The Memory House, both Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and has been shortlisted and nominated for several other awards, including the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Pen Faulkner Award in Fiction. Her queer travel novel, No One’s Leaving, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2025. She teaches creative writing both at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at Augsburg University. You can find her here and follow on Instagram @rakikopernik

Website: https://www.rakikopernik.com/

Darci Schummer Bio: 

Darci Schummer is the author of the story collection Six Months in the Midwest (Unsolicited Press), the novel The Ballad of Two Sisters (Unsolicited Press), and the poetry chapbook The Book of Orion (Bottlecap Press). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, Folio, Jet Fuel Review, MAYDAY, Matchbook, Necessary Fiction, Sundog Lit, and Pithead Chapel, among many other places. She has been nominated both for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and in 2023, she was the artist-in-residence at the LaPointe Center for the Arts in LaPointe, Wisconsin, on Madeline Island. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of Creative Writing at Colorado State University Pueblo.

Website: https://www.darcischummer.com/

Robyn Leigh Lear Bio:

Robyn Leigh Lear is the Creative Director for April Gloaming Publishing, Associate Professor, and poet living in Nashville, TN. She is currently finalizing her second manuscript, Yonderling, written under the mentorship of Diane Seuss.

Kerry Donoghue Bio:
Kerry Donoghue’s poetry and stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, Painted Bride Quarterly, Permafrost, the Louisville Review, and the South Carolina Review, among other journals. She also wrote The Loudest Voice of All, a children’s book, to fundraise for an organization that educates girls about the power of voting. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area with her family. Mouth is her first book.

Website: www.kerrydonoghue.com