Award-winning mystery and true crime writer Kate Flora is the author of 14 books, including the true crime story Death Dealer and the novel And Grant You Peace, both published in the fall of 2014. Her book Finding Amy (true crime), co-written with a Portland, Maine deputy police chief, was a 2007 Edgar Award nominee.

Ladette Randolph is the the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares and the author of four books including the memoir Leaving The Pink House (University of Iowa Press, 2014). Her two novels are Haven’s Wake and A Sandhills Ballad; she has also penned the short story collection This is Not the Tropics and edited four