Amos J Landon is an openly transgender writer from southern New Hampshire. He lives with his partner, four teenage sons, two hedgehogs, and a turtle named Pickles. When Amos is not writing, he can be found playing board games and hoarding office supplies (sticky notes are a personal favorite). Amos’s writing is geared toward middle schoolers and focuses on friendship and humor. His debut novel, The Girl, The Pig, And The Accidental Demon will be on shelves in summer 2022.

Leigh Anne Couch has published two books of poetry, Every Lash (University of North Texas, 2020) and Houses Fly Away (Zone 3 Press, 2007), and one chapbook, Green and Helpless (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Now a freelance editor, she was formerly at Duke University Press and the Sewanee Review. Her poems have been published widely in magazines including PANK, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Subtropic, Smartish Pace, Nelle, and Cincinnati Review, with poetry featured in Verse Daily, Dzanc’s Best of the Web, and in The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Penguin). Though she is a child of the South, she was a youth of the Adirondacks and the American West. She now lives in Sewanee, Tennessee with writer Kevin Wilson and their sons, Griff and Patch.

Sandra O’Donnell is an author, book coach, and reluctant literary agent. She holds a BA and MA in Communication and a PhD in History. She leads writing workshops and retreats in the US, Mexico, and Canada. She’s the author of Your First Fifteen Pages and cohosts a podcast aimed at demystifying the writing and publishing process. Sandra is currently working on a memoir tentatively titled A Stacked Deck and a nonfiction book about persecution and prosecution in England during the time of Elizabeth and James I.