Lyn Baldwin teaches ecology at Thompson Rivers University amidst the sagebrush steppe and inland coniferous forests of southern British Columbia. Lyn’s illustrations and essays have been published in Camas, Cirque, Terrain and The Goose. More excerpts from Lyn’s field journals can be found at http://viridianlife.sites.tru.ca/

Max Dorfman is a writer and visual artist living in New York City. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College with his BA in English and Columbia University with his MA in Clinical Psychology. He has also been published in The Bookends Review and Parhelion Literary Magazine.

Mark Hall is a professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Flashquake, The Timberline Review, Lunch Ticket, Passengers Journal, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Hippocampus, and others.

Robin Schauffler frequently writes of her long experience living and traveling in Mexico. Her work has appeared in Cargo Literary, Timberline Review, Aji, Hawaii Pacific Review, Ocotillo Review, Street Roots, and forthcoming in Silk Road Review. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and misses Mexico every day.