Kathy Flann's fiction has appeared in The North American Review, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Yemassee, The Barcelona Review, The Adirondack Review, Blackbird, The Del Sol Review, The O. Henry Festival Stories, and New Stories from the South. Her unpublished short story collection, Smoky Ordinary, was one of five finalist for The Virginia Kirkus Literary Award. She has taught Creative Writing at numerous universities in the US and England. During her five years in the UK, she served on the board of directors of The National Association of Writers in Education. In terms of her own education, she earned an MA with a Creative Writing Concentration from Auburn University and an MFA in Creative Writing from UNC-Greensboro, where she served as Fiction Editor of The Greensboro Review.

Young Smith has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, American Literary Review, Arts & Letters, Atlanta Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The New Orleans Review, and other publications. He has written stage plays, as well as musicals, including The Three-Cornered Hat, performed at Houston’s Main Street Theater, and Better Being Bad, performed at Minneapolis’s Hey Street Theatre. He is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.