Daniel Mueller is the author of three collections of short stories: How Animals Mate (Overlook Press 1999), winner of the Sewanee Fiction Prize; Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey (Outpost 19 Books 2013), winner of a Santa Fe Writers’ Project Book Award; and Anything You Recognize (Outpost 19 Books 2023). His work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals. He teaches on the creative writing faculties of University of New Mexico, the Low-Residency MFA Program at Queens University of Charlotte, and Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Albuquerque.

Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing stories, essays, and novels. His stories have been accepted more than 580 times by journals, magazines, and anthologies including The American Writers Review,Bryant Literary Review, and Shenandoah. He was nominated four times for Pushcart Prizes and once for inclusion in Best of the Net anthology. Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist – who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.

Dennis McFadden, a retired project manager, lives and writes in a cedar-shingled cottage called Summerhill in the woods of upstate New York. His first collection “Hart’s Grove,” was published by Colgate University Press in 2010, and his second, “Jimtown Road,” won the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction; another collection, “Lafferty, Looking for Love,” is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. His novel, “Old Grimes Is Dead,” earned a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, and was selected by their editors as one of the Best Indie Books of 2022. Over a hundred of his stories have appeared in publications such as The Missouri Review (including the winner of the 2023 Perkoff Prize), New England Review, The Sewanee Review, Arts & Letters, The Antioch Review, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The Best American Mystery Stories and in the inaugural volume of the series, The Best Mystery Stories the Year 2021. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he also frequently serves as (and is currently) the judge for Prime Number Magazine’s Short Fiction Award, and as their guest short fiction editor.