Susan Ludvigson, Professor Emerita at Winthrop University, was the 2014 winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry from Five Points magazine. She has published eight collections of poems with LSU Press, including Escaping the House of Certainty (2006). The first line of “Dead,” appearing here, is the title of her next collection. Most recently, her poems can be found in the Yale Review and the Southern Review.

Nola Garrett’s second book, The Pastor’s Wife Considers Pinball, was published by Mayapple Press in 2013. Her first, The Dynamite Maker’s Mistress (Wordtech Communications, 2009) is a collection of twenty-seven variations on the sestina form. She writes a monthly blog for Autumn House Press and is Faculty Emerita of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

Miles Wilson is the founding director of the MFA program at Texas State University. He is the author of three prize-winning books: Fire Season (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2014), Harm (2003), and Line of Fall (1989). His previous story in The Georgia Review (“Everything,” Winter 1987) was one of three cited when The Georgia Review was named a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction in 1988.