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Sarah Thankam Mathews is the author of All This Could Be Different, which was shortlisted for the Discover Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and 2022 National Book Award in fiction. Mathews’s debut novel was also a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, The … Continued

Stephen Monroe is chair and assistant professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. He is an affiliated faculty member in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a steering committee member at the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. Monroe serves as director of the … Continued

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the New York Times bestselling author of two illustrated collections of essays: Bite by Bite and World of Wonders, chosen as Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year and as a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. She has published four award-winning poetry collections and spent a decade serving as the poetry editor for environmental magazines, first for Orion and then Sierra. A professor … Continued

Janisse Ray, an award-winning author, explores the borderland of nature and culture in her books and popular Substack, Trackless Wild. She wrote the classic environmental memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a story of growing up in the iconic longleaf pine flatwoods. Ray holds an MFA from the University of Montana, where she returned as the William Kittredge … Continued

Michael Reynolds is the executive publisher of Europa Editions. He is the recipient of the 2016 Golden Colophon Award for Superlative Achievement & Leadership in Independent Literary Publishing, given by the Community of Literary and Magazine Presses. Reynolds was a 2017 Epiphany Magazine honoree for publishing excellence, and in 2020 he was named a knight … Continued