Kim Triedman is both an award-winning poet and a novelist. Her debut novel, The Other Room (Owl Canyon Press), and two full-length poetry collections, Plum(b) and Hadestown, both released in 2013. The Other Room was a finalist for the 2008 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and Kim’s poetry has garnered many awards, including the 2008

Jill Teitelman, author of Saving Gracie (2012), has taught writing and literature at the Sorbonne, The School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, the University of Massachusetts and Simmons College. A former MacDowell Colony fellow with short stories stories published in The Chicago Review, Transatlantic, Story Quarterly and Riverrun, she has also written encyclopedia articles about

Jewish Storyteller Press is a small publishing house founded by Emmy Award-winning television producer and Jewish storyteller Scott Hilton Davis. Former executive producer at North Carolina’s statewide public television network, Scott stumbled upon the work of 19th-century Yiddish author Jacob Dinezon while doing research and discovered that Dinezon was a bestseller in his time and

Jane Rosenberg LaForge, author of An Unsuitable Princess (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014), writes both fiction and poetry. After studying writing in the Kate Braveman workshops of the early 1990s in L.A., she received an MFA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was awarded a Delaney Fellowship for Women Writers. Since 2000 she’s been an

Heidi Legg is author of My Evangeline (2011), a modern take on Longfellow’s famous poem. Founder of TheEditorial.com, where she interviews visionaries and thinkers around us, she is compelled to find individuals who are disrupting and improving the way we think and live and to tell their stories. Her interviews have appeared in The Atlantic,

PEN / Hemingway Award finalist and Iowa Short Fiction Award winner Douglas Trevor is an associate professor at the University of Michigan, where he teaches in the English and Creative Writing Programs. Author of Girls I Know (SixOneSeven Books, 2013) and The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (University of Iowa Press, 2005), Doug’s