ANDREW BENEDICT-NELSON is a graduate student in the history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Another Chicago Magazine, and Bookmarks.
ADAM DAVIS works with the Project on Civic Reflection, the Illinois Humanities Council, and the Odyssey Project in the Humanities. He is the editor of Hearing the Call Across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service and the co-editor of The Civically Engaged Reader.
DAVID GALEF is a professor of English at Montclair State University and the author of over a dozen books. His latest publication is A Man of Ideas and Other Stories.
JAMES GRABILL has been writing poetry since the 1970s and has his work published in kayak, Field, Poetry Northwest, and Cimarron Review. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches writing, literature, and sustainability.
ONSMITH JEREMI is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Chicago. His comics, prints, and illustrations have appeared in the Chicago Reader, Oxford American Magazine, Vice Magazine, and both volumes of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories. He recently began exhibiting his artwork in gallery shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Portland.
KEVIN MATTSON is Connor Study Professor of contemporary history at Ohio University. His most recent book, What the Heck are You Up to, Mr. President?: Jimmy Carter, America's ‘Malaise,’ and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country, will come out this summer.
TOM MCBRIDE is a professor of English and Keefer Professor of the Humanities at Beloit College, where he has taught for 35 years. He edits the college’s annual Mindset List and is the editor of Why They Write: 14 Famous Authors Give Their Reasons (2002).
PENELOPE MESIC is an arts columnist working in Chicago. Her book reviews have appeared in publications as diverse as Poetry and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
JAMES ROOTS is the author of The Politics of Visual Language and has published reviews in Books in Canada, Literary Review of Canada, Ottawa Citizen, and other publications. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.
GENEVIEVE SIMMS is an illustrator working out of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. Her work has appeared in McSweeny's Quarterly Concern, and the Los Angeles Times, and has had shows throughout Calgary.
DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON is a poet, playwright, short story writer, and social critic living in Charleston, South Carolina. His work has previously appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Boston Review, the Chiron Review, Dissent, and the Nation.
CAROLINE ZIMMERMAN is an editorial assistant at the Kneerim & Williams literary agency in Boston. She has worked as a writer and editor for the online news websites Newser.com and Amity360.com. She graduated summa cum laude from McGill University, where she was culture editor of the McGill Daily in 2008.
FREDRICK ZYDEK is the author of eight collections of poetry. T’Kopechuck: the Buckley Poems is forthcoming from Winthrop Press. Formerly a professor of creative writing and theology, he is now a gentleman farmer when he isn’t writing. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Cimmaron Review, and Poetry.
