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Terese Svoboda has won the Guggenheim, the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Poetry Prize, an NEH translation grant, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation video prize, the O. Henry Award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.'s Disney Hall.  Roxy and Coco, her 20th book, will be published in 2024.

Dog on Fire is the fourth book she's published in five years in four genres, the others being Theatrix: Poetry Plays (poetry, Anhinga Press) “A tour de force collection that explodes our notion of the fourth wall” – Virginia Konchan; Great American Desert (stories, Mad Creek Books) "Great  American  Desert is a devious and extraordinary new collection of stories from one of our best writers, Terese Svoboda." -- Karen Russell; and Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (biography, Schaffner Press) “Magisterial” – Washington Post.

Sherrie Flick is the author of a novel and two short story collections. Her collection Thank Your Lucky Stars (Autumn House Press) is now an audio book. Adina Verson performed her story “Heidi is Dead,” from her debut collection Whiskey, Etc.(Autumn House Press) for NPR’s December 2022 Selected Shorts. New work appears in Ploughshares, New England Review, and Booth. She is a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 (Braddock Avenue Books), and co-edited the anthology Flash Fiction America (February 2023, W. W. Norton). 

Mary Helen Stefaniak’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many publications. Of her new novel, The World of Pondside, a mystery that takes place in a nursing home, Booklist said, “Stefaniak infuses an often forbidding environment with joy and dignity.” Her previous novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, was selected by Rita Dove and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for works that contribute to our understanding of racism and our appreciation for a diversity of cultures. Independent booksellers selected The Cailiffs as an Indie-Next “Great Read.” Her first novel, The Turk and My Mother, received the 2005 John Gardner Fiction Award and has been translated into seven languages. It was named a Favorite Book of 2004 by the Chicago Tribune. Both novels, along with her first book, Self Storage and Other Stories, were honored by the Wisconsin Library Association.