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Danielle Cooney is a teacher, poet, and artist whose writing has been featured in literary magazines such as Persona, The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, and Ocean State Review‘s 10th anniversary edition. Her passion for community programming began with organizing family events and children’s workshops through the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center when she was an undergraduate student in Tucson, Arizona, to the more recent planning of various reading events for student, local, and national writers in Missoula, Montana. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Montana where she now teaches English, writing, and debate courses, and serves as the Program Coordinator for the BFA in Creative Writing.

Sean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods (Milkweed Editions, 2014), awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor (UGA Press, 2008), named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book. Hill has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hill’s poems and essays have appeared in Callaloo, Harvard Review, New England Review, Orion, Oxford American, Poetry, Tin House, and numerous other journals, and in nearly three dozen anthologies including Black Nature, Villanelles, and Cascadia Field Guide. A selected volume of his poems has been translated and published in Korean under the title Crush. Hill lives in southwestern Montana with his family and is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana

Robert Stubblefield has published fiction and personal essays in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, Best Stories of the American West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Left Bank, The Clackamas Literary Review, Cascadia Times, Oregon Humanities, Oregon Salmon: Essays on the State of the Fish at the Turn of the Millennium,Open Spaces, basalt, High Desert Journal, and The Whitefish Review among others. Awards include a Georges and Anne Borchardt scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Fishtrap Fellowship, and Imnaha Writers’ Retreat Fellowship. Robert grew up in eastern Oregon and now lives in Missoula, Montana and teaches at the University of Montana where he serves as Director of the BFA in Creative Writing and UM Press.