Ashley Warlick is the author of three novels, "The Distance from the Heart of Things," "The Summer After June," and "Seek the Living," all published by Houghton Mifflin. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such places as "Garden and Gun," "Redbook," "The Oxford American" and "McSweeney's," and she is the editor of edible Upcountry, a magazine focused on local and sustainable foodways in upstate South Carolina. She is the youngest winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, and in 2006, she received a literature fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She is at work on her fourth novel, "In Hunger."

Sally Keith's first book, "Design" (University Press of Colorado, 2001), won the 2000 Colorado Prize, judged by Allen Grossman. Her second manuscript "Dwelling Song" was chosen by Bin Ramke and Fanny Howe for the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series in 2004. She has published poems in several journals, including: American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, and Volt. She was the 2002/03 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College and has taught at the University of Rochester.