Robert Ren is a recent graduate from Columbia University's MFA program.
Susan Sinclair Edele is a wearer of many hats - writer, daughter, dog whisperer, mother, chauffeur, sister, editor, wife, teacher, referee and reader. She teaches at Lindenwood University.
Sogol Sur is the author of the poetry collection, Sorrows of the Sun (Skyscraper, 2017). She is currently undertaking a doctorate in creative writing at Birkbeck college, University of London, and working on her debut short story collection with the theme of The Iranian Queer.
Author of The Man Who Built Boxes: and other stories, (Bacon Press Books, 2013), Frank Tavares has been writing his entire professional life. He started publishing fiction in the 2000s, and his short stories have appeared in a variety of literary journals including Louisiana Literature, Connecticut Review, Story Quarterly, The GW Review, and The Seventh Wave.
If you’re an NPR listener, then you already know Frank. For many years, he was called “The Most Heard Voice” on public radio. Until the winter of 2014 listeners across the country heard him dozens of times a day as the man who said, "Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and from. . . ." then announcing the funding credits after every national news and information program.
Most recently he was Professor of Organizational Communication at Southern Connecticut State University. He was also one of the founding editors and a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media.
He now lives in Florida, where you can find him most mornings writing before dawn.
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