Franklin & Marshall College

Paul Bogard is the author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light, which will be published in July by Little, Brown. He is editor of the anthology Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark.  His writing has appeared in such places as Outside Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, the Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, and the Los Angeles Times. A native Minnesotan, Paul has lived and taught in New Mexico, Nevada, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. He is now assistant professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collection This Is Not Your City. Her stories appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, and elsewhere, and have won awards including the Plimpton Prize and Fellowships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. She is the fiction editor of The Kenyon Review, and teaches at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Jeffrey Pethybridge is the author of Striven, The Bright Treatise (Noemi Press).  His poems appear widely in journals such as Chicago Review, Volt, New American Writing, The Iowa Review and others.  He is the North American editor for Likestarlings (www.likestarlings.com) a web-based archive of collaborative poetry and poetics. He grew up in Virginia.

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi is an Iranian-American writer of fiction and non-fiction, and the author of Fra Keeler (2012). She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and is a recipient of a Fulbright Grant to Catalonia, Spain. She is co-author of the Words Without Borders dispatch seriesArtistsTalk: Israel/Palestine and is at work on a second project entitled The Catalan Literary Landscape, an exploration of notions of journey and the intersections between landscape and literature. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Coffin Factory, State of the Union (a Wave Books anthology), The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, The Collagist, and Lit Magazine. Her chapbook Girona was published by New Herring Press in 2011.