Dan Kaplan is the author of three books of poetry, most recently 2.4.18 (Spuyten Duyvil, April 2023), an erasure of the February 4, 2018 issue of The New York Times. His work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Poetry Northwest, the anthology Flash Fiction Forward (W. W. Norton & Co.), and elsewhere. He is editor of Burnside Review Press and lives in Portland.

Mary Rechner is the author of the novella The Opposite of Wow, published in the Hong Kong Review, and the story collection Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women, now reissued under the Northwest Collections imprint. Her new book, Marrying Friends, is forthcoming from Propeller Books in October.