Matthew J. C. Clark is a writer and carpenter living in Bath, ME. His debut book,
Bjarki, Not Bjarki:
on floorboards, love, and irreconcilable differences (University of Iowa Press) was published in January 2024. His most recent work, an essay about the Maine Lobster Festival, David Foster Wallace and pain, appeared in
Rustica. You can find out more at
matthewjcclark.com.
Jessica Purdy holds an MFA from Emerson College. She is the author of
STARLAND and
Sleep in a Strange House (Nixes Mate, 2017 and 2018),
The Adorable Knife: poems based on The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Grey Book Press, 2023), and
You’re Never the Same: Ekphrastic Poems (Seven Kitchens Press).
Sleep in a Strange House was a finalist for the NH Literary Award for poetry. Her poetry manuscript
Lung Hours was a finalist in Codhill Press' Guest Editor Poetry Series 2023, The Granite State Poetry Prize, and The Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize. Her poems and micro-fiction have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Spiritual Literature, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and Best Micro-Fiction. Her poetry, flash fiction, and reviews appear in
About Place,
On the Seawall,
Radar,
The Night Heron Barks,
SoFloPoJo,
Litro, , and elsewhere. She lives in Exeter, NH. website:
http://www.jessicapurdy.com/Adam Scheffler is an Assistant Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing in the English Department at Wichita State University. He is the author of two books of poetry—
A Dog's Life—which won the 2016 Jacar Press Book Contest and
Heartworm—which won the 2021 Moon City Press Prize. His poems have appeared in
The American Poetry Review,
Poem-a-Day, Verse Daily,
Rattle, Narrative and dozens of other literary journals. Adam grew up in California, received his MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his PhD in English from Harvard.
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