Neville Frankel

Neville Frankel is an Emmy award-winning writer of literary and historical fiction.

A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, Neville Frankel immigrated to the US with his family at the age of 14. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and did his doctoral work in English literature at the University of Toronto.

Chad Boudreaux

Before becoming Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer of the nation’s largest military shipbuilder, Chad Boudreaux served as Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he advised Secretary Michael Chertoff on almost all significant matters facing the newly established department. Before working for Homeland Security, Boudreaux served in several high-ranking positions at the U.S. Justice Department, where he was hired the night before the September 11, 2001 attacks. During his time at the Justice Department, Boudreaux focused most of his time on matters relating to terrorism and homeland security. Boudreaux graduated from Baylor University in Texas in 1995 and from the University of Memphis School of Law in 1998, where he was Managing Editor of the law review.

Chad lives in Hampton Roads, Virginia, with his wife and four children.

Angela Woodward

Angela Woodward is the author of the novel Ink (2023), part of the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose series. Her other books include the novels Natural Wonders (winner of the Fiction Collective Two Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize) and End of the Fire Cult, and the collections Origins and Other Stories and The Human Mind. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in many literary journals including Kenyon Review, Agni, Conjunctions, Ninth Letter, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She’s won a Pushcart Prize for short fiction and grants and awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the Council for Wisconsin Writers, The Writers Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and others. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Chelsea Stickle

Chelsea Stickle’s debut flash fiction chapbook Breaking Points was the Editor’s Choice in the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition and was released by Black Lawrence Press on October 2021. A second flash fiction chapbook is forthcoming from Thirty West Publishing in January 2023. It contains stories of strangeness.