Sindya Bhanoo is the author of the story collection Seeking Fortune Elsewhere. She is the winner of an Oregon Book Award for fiction, the New American Voices Award, and an O. Henry Prize. A longtime journalist, she has reported for The New York Times and The Washington Post. She teaches creative writing at OSU.

​Jeff Fearnside is the author of four full-length books and chapbooks, most recently Ships in the Desert (SFWP, 2022), winner of several honors, including a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. His work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies such as The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review, Story, and The Sun.

​Karen Holmberg writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her award-winning poetry collections are The Perseids and Axis Mundi. Her lyric essays have appeared in At Length, Tupelo Quarterly, and New England Review, among other places. Her first young adult novel, The Collagist, won the 2021 Acheven Prize and was published by Regal Press/Fitzroy Editions in the spring of 2024. She teaches British Literature, poetry writing, and letterpress printing at Oregon State University, where she is on the MFA in Creative Writing faculty

Jennifer Richter’s third poetry collection, Dear Future, was chosen by Felicia Zamora as winner of the Tenth Gate Prize for midcareer poets and was released in May 2024; her earlier collections Threshold and No Acute Distress were both named Oregon Book Award Finalists. Richter was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in Poetry by Stanford University; she currently teaches in OSU’s MFA
program.

Jacob Darwin Hamblin is an American historian who is a professor at Oregon State University. He writes and speaks about international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment, especially related to nuclear issues, ecology, oceans, and climate. He has written several books, dozens of essays, and is the recipient of the American Historical Association’s Birdsall Prize (for best book in military or strategic history) and the History of Science Society’s Davis Prize (for best book for a general audience). His most recent book, The Wretched Atom, won the 2022 Frances Fuller Victor Prize in general nonfiction at the Literary Arts Oregon Book Awards.

After a long and fruitful career as a professional gardener, Charles Goodrich worked for more than a decade with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University. Charles is the author of four volumes of poetry— Watering the Rhubarb; A Scripture of Crows; Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden; and Insects of South Corvallis—and a book of narrative essays, The Practice of Home. His first novel, Weave Me a Crooked Basket, was published by University of Nevada Press in 2023. He writes and gardens near the confluence of the Marys and Willamette Rivers in the traditional homeland of the Ampinefu Band of the Kalapuya in Corvallis, Oregon.  FMI: charlesgoodrich.com 

Elena Passarello is an author, teacher, and radio host. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been translated into six languages and have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, National Geographic, and Audubon, as well as in two published collections. She is the recipient of an Oregon Book Award, the Whiting Award, and the Blackwell Prize. For the past dozen years, Elena has lived in Corvallis, where she teaches Creative Writing at Oregon State University. You can hear her every week on OPB as the announcer of the radio variety show LiveWire!

Alison Cochran is a former high school English teacher and a current writer of queer love stories, including her debut novel, The Charm Offensive, and Kiss Her Once for Me, which won the Lambda Literary Award for best LBGTQ Romance in 2023, and Here We Go Again.

Alissa Hattman is author of the novel Sift, recently shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Carve, The Rumpus, The Gravity of the Thing, Propeller, Big Other, Surely Magazine, and elsewhere. Alissa has taught writing classes and workshops for over 15 years and has worked as a fiction editor, book reviewer, zine librarian, writing group facilitator, and artist-in-residence at several arts centers, most recently Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Iceland. Originally from North Dakota, she now lives and teaches in the Pacific Northwest. 

Scott Nadelson is the author of a novel, a memoir, and six collections of short fiction, most recently While It Lasts, recipient of the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence. His work has won an Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize and has been published in venues such as Ploughshares, New England Review, The Writer’s Chronicle and The Best American Short Stories. He teaches at Willamette University, where he holds the Hallie Brown Ford Chair in Writing, and in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University. His new novel, Trust Me, is forthcoming in September 2024.