Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Claiming Kin, Lotus Flowers, Shadow of Heaven and Kyrie. Her most recent book, Messenger: New and Selected Works 1976-2006, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She has received such grants and awards as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writing Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and was recently inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She currently teaches writing at Warren Wilson College. [2009]

Candice Baxter has published work in The Commercial Appeal and Memphis Parent and placed third in Rembrandt's Story of Your Life Contest. She is the marketing director for The Pinch and is a second-year MFA student in creative nonfiction at the University of Memphis. [2009]

Wendy Sumner Winter has been a chef, curator and community organizer, among other things. She has served as an editor in various capacities, including managing editor for The Pinch, and will complete her MFA at the University of Memphis this spring. Her poems have appeared in Word Riot, and she is at work on a novel and a collection of personal essays. [2009]