Heidi Lynn Staples’ debut collection, Guess Can Gallop, was selected by Brenda Hillman as a winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. She is author of three other collections, including Noise Event (Ahsahta, 2013). With the poet Amy King, she is editor and founder of Poets for Living Waters, begun as an international response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and of Big Energy Poets: When Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change.

Josh Dugat was born and raised in Austin, Texas. He has taught high school science in New Orleans, worked as a ranger for Louisiana’s state parks, and served on Forest Service fire crews in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. He now lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he goes dancing with his wife, Nicole.