Tara L. Masih received an MA in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College. She is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (a 2009 ForeWord Best Book of the Year finalist), and her debut story collection, Where the Dog Star Never Glows, was described as "striking and resonant" by Publishers Weekly. Tara has published fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous anthologies and literary magazines and her essays have been read on NPR. Awards for her work include first place in The Ledge Magazine’s fiction contest, second place in Jane’s Stories Flash Fiction contest, a finalist fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and Best of the Web nominations. She works as a freelance book editor in Andover, Massachusetts. www.taramasih.com

Joy Katz is editor-at-large for Pleiades. She is the author of two poetry collections, The Garden Room and Fabulae, and co-editor of the anthology Dark Horses: Poets on Lost Poems. She will be writer-in-residence at the University of Wichita this spring and recently (unexpectedly, happily) moved to Pittsburgh with her husband and young son.