Mitch Marty is an author, photographer, and cyclist who resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, though he often writes about growing up in the Midwest.

He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico, and he is currently working on a short story collection about the everyday ghosts of rural Wisconsin and characters who are stuck in time.

Kenneth Jakubas' fiction and poetry can be found in The Southwest Review, Passages North, decomP magazine, The Boiler, phoebe journal, and The Atlanta Review. His chapbook of short fiction, The Choir Invisible, was a recent semifinalist in The Florida Review’s 2023-24 Leiby Chapbook Award and a semifinalist in Digging Press’ 2023 Chapbook Award.

He holds an MFA from Western Michigan University, where he served as poetry editor for Third Coast. Currently, he resides in Battle Creek, Michigan, with his wife, son, and preteen cats. Read his miniseries, Reliever, at shitlitfic or find other work at kennethjakubas.tumblr.com.

Chad Nickerson is a writer, editor, and fledgling web developer living in Minneapolis with his wife and baby. He has an MFA in fiction from Western Michigan University, where he met the aforementioned Kenneth Jakubas and clutched onto his coattails, which he continues to ride to this very day.

He aspires to have publications of various quality listed right here.