AMBER ALBRITTON is the author of the poetry collection The Indignity of Knowing: Perspectives in Verse of a Military Life. She lives with her family and dog in Knoxville, Tennessee. Though she grew up traveling extensively in a military family, East Tennessee is her land, and these are her people. She teaches for the English Department at the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, where she is currently working on two more books.

Bess Cooley is the author of a poetry collection, Florence. She is a winner of the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize and her work has also appeared in Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, American Literary Review, The Journal, and Verse Daily, among other journals. She is co-founding editor of Peatsmoke Journal and teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.