Nonfiction

Ashley Caveda is an MFA candidate at The Ohio State University. Born and raised in Indiana, she graduated from Butler University with a BA in English and Spanish. Currently, she's working on a memoir that explores her life and the lives of her four siblings after a car accident in 1990 left her and her younger brother paralyzed.

James Valvis is the author of HOW TO SAY GOODBYE (Aortic Books, 2011). He has published hundreds of poems in places like Anderbo, Arts & Letters, Confrontation, Crab Creek Review, Gargoyle, Hanging Loose, New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Rattle, River Styx, Skidrow Penthouse, and Verse Daily. His fiction is also widely published in places like Concisely, Los Angeles Review, Night Train, Pedestal Magazine, Potomac Review, storySouth, and Washington Pastime. His poetry has been featured on the Best American Poetry website and his fiction has twice been a Notable Story in the Million Writers Award. He lives near Seattle.

Jill Christman's memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction, was first published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002, and was reissued in paperback in Fall 2011. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations and her writing has been published in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Descant, Literary Mama, Mississippi Review, Wondertime, and many other journals, magazines, and anthologies. She teaches creative nonfiction in Ashland University's low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University in Muncie where she lives with her husband, writer Mark Neely, and their two children.

Lee Martin is the author of fourteen books, including The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and, most recently, The Glassmaker’s Wife. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University and at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. 

Louise DeSalvo joined the faculty of Hunter College in 1982, where she was awarded the President's Award for distinguished scholarship. Among her publications are the acclaimed and controversial biography of Woolf (named one of the most important books of the 20th century by The Women's Review of Books) Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work, and the memoirs Vertigo, (winner of the Gay Talese Prize), Breathless, Adultery; Crazy in the Kitchen, and On Moving. Her book, Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives, is used throughout the world by writers recovering from trauma.

Patrick Madden is the author of Quotidiana, winner of book of the year awards from Independent Publisher and ForeWord Reviews, and finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction. His essays have been recently been published in Fourth Genre, Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, and the Normal School, and they've been republished in the Best American Spiritual Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies. He teaches in the MFA programs at Brigham Young University and Vermont College and curates an online anthology of classical essays at www.quotidiana.org.