J.R. Baldwin

J.R. Baldwin has a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Hillsdale College. She is a managing editor at Ignitum Today, and is a senior contributor at The Imaginative Conservative and The Mirror Magazine. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and daughter.

LisaMarie DeSanto

LisaMarie DeSanto is a freelance writer from New York, whose articles about the arts are regularly featured in ArtsWNews. In addition to copywriting, blogging, and writing press releases for various clients, she enjoys posting weekly entries in her blog, The Fork in the Road, which can be found at www.lisamariedesanto.com.

Gerald Duff

Gerald Duff has published 16 books, including novels, collections of short stories and poems, memoirs, and critical studies of literature. His most recent books are a novel, Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League, and a memoir, Fugitive Days. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Sewanee Review, […]

David Madden

David Madden’s latest novel is London Bridge in Plague and Fire. His third book of stories, The Last Bizarre Tale, comes out soon.  Touching the Web of Southern Writers is a collection of essays about encounters with writers, in the flesh and only in the Word.

Celia Bland

Celia Bland hails from North Carolina and teaches at Bard College.  Her reviews have recently appeared in Poetry International, The Boston Review, and Drunken Boat, and her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Narrative Review (where her poem “Wasps” was named one of the year’s best), Word/ForWord, and Witness and will soon appear in The Virginia Quarterly Review. Madonna Comix, her collaboration […]

Chris Timmons

Chris Timmons is a freelance newspaper writer who lives in Tallahassee, Florida. He has written for newspapers such as the Tallahassee Democrat, Orlando Sentinel, and others. He has no formal higher education.