Fleming Smith is a recent graduate of Athens Academy in Athens, Georgia. During high school, she interned at the Athens Banner-Herald and The Georgia Review. This year, she won first place at the state literary competition for Girls’ Essay Class A Private. She has written three novels and is currently at work on a fourth. In the fall, she will begin her undergraduate work at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Siân Griffiths directs the creative writing program at Weber State University. Her work has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Ninth Letter, the Rumpus, Quarterly West, and many other publications. Her first novel, Borrowed Horses (New Rivers Press, 2013), was a semi-finalist for the 2014 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.

Baynard Woods is the author of Coffin Point: The Strange Cases of Ed McTeer, Witchdoctor Sheriff (River City Publishing, 2010). He is editor-at-large and a columnist at the Baltimore City Paper, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, and numerous other publications. He is writing a book about people who believe in the Greek gods.

Janet Geddis is a writer, editor, and voracious reader originally from Atlanta. In 2011, she achieved a lifelong dream by opening Avid Bookshop, a community-focused, independent bookstore in Athens, Georgia, that has become a literary destination for authors and readers alike. Janet earned her BA in English at NYU and her MEd in gifted and creative education from the University of Georgia. In addition to running the bookshop, she is a featured writer and patient advocate at Migraine.com.

Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently published Thomas Mann’s Artist-Heroes (Northwestern University Press, 2014), Remembering Iris Murdoch (Palgrave Pivot, 2013), and the paperback edition of Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (Harper Perennial, 2014). Thirty of his books have been translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. In 2012 he gave the Seymour lectures on biography, sponsored by the National Library of Australia, in Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney.