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Megan Merchant (she/her) lives in the tall pines of Prescott, AZ with her husband and two children. She holds an M.F.A. degree in International Creative Writing from UNLV and is the author of three full-length poetry collections with Glass Lyre Press: Gravel Ghosts (2016), The Dark’s Humming (2015 Lyrebird Award Winner, 2017), Grief Flowers (2018), four chapbooks, and a children’s book, These Words I Shaped for You (Philomel Books). Her latest book, Before the Fevered Snow, was released in April 2020 with Stillhouse Press. She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera, the 2018 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, second place in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry,  the Inaugural Michelle Boisseau Prize, and the New American Book Prize. She is the Editor of Pirene’s Fountain. You can find her work at https://meganmerchant.wixsite.com/poet

Tommy Sheffield (he/him) was born in 1991, in Fairfax, Virginia. He is a graduate of James Madison University, where he studied poetry under Laurie Kutchins. He currently resides in Fairfax, VA and teaches high school in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at George Mason University, where he studied poetry; he is also the poetry editor for Stillhouse Press. He has served as the Managing Editor for Megan Merchant's poetry collection Before the Fevered Snow; Baltimore Sons, a collection by Dean Smith, head of Duke University Press; How to Bury a Boy at Sea, the debut collection of poet Phil Goldstein alongside Stillhouse editor Rose Strode; The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon by Latif Askia Ba; and A Map of Every Undoing by Alicia Elkort. Sheffield's poetry, stories, and essays have been featured in ucity review, Adelaide, Sanitarium, Cough Syrup Magazine, 3 A.M. Press, and many lesser-known zines.

Mickardo Streete was born in Westmoreland, Jamaica

on a sunny August day. An avid lover of academia and international cultures, he was educated both in Jamaica and the United States. He graduated from the University of Alabama with an M.Sc. in  Applied Statistics, M.A. in Economics, and a certificate in Predictive Modeling. Additionally, he has a B.Sc. in Business Economics and Social Statistics, and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of the West Indies. While working as the Senior Fiscal Economist at the Ministry of Finance in Kingston, Jamaica, he earned a certificate in Debt Sustainability Analysis from the IMF. He currently resides and teaches in Washington, D.C.