James Brubaker is the author of the novel The Taxidermist’s Catalog, and story collections Pilot Season, Liner Notes, and Black Magic Death Sphere: (science) fictions. His work has appeared in venues including Zoetrope: All Story, Booth, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, The Normal School, and Diagram, among others. He teaches writing in Missouri and is the director of Southeast Missouri State University Press, and edits fiction for the journal Big Muddy.
Michael Rerick lives and teaches in Portland, OR. Work recently appears or is forthcoming at Clade Song, COAST|noCOAST, Epigraph Magazine, Graviton, and The Wire’s Dream. He is also the author of In Ways Impossible to Fold, morefrom, The Kingdom of Blizzards, The Switch Yards, and X-Ray.