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Robert Stubblefield has published fiction and personal essays in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, Best Stories of the American West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Left Bank, The Clackamas Literary Review, Cascadia Times, Oregon Humanities, Oregon Salmon: Essays on the State of the Fish at the Turn of the Millennium, Open Spaces, basalt, Southern Humanities Review, Whitefish Review, and High Desert Journal among others. Awards include a Georges and Anne Borchardt scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Fishtrap Fellowship, and Imhaha Writers’ Retreat Fellowship. Robert grew up in Eastern Oregon and now lives in Missoula, Montana and teaches at the University of Montana and serves as Director of the BFA Program in Creative Writing.

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Sean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods (Milkweed Editions, 2014), awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor (UGA Press, 2008), named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book. Hill has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hill lives in southwestern Montana with his family and is a professor of creative writing at the University of Montana. More information can be found at www.seanhillpoetry.com.

Danielle Cooney is a teacher, poet, and artist whose writing has been featured in literary magazines such as Persona, The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, and Ocean State Review's 10th anniversary edition. Her passion for community programming began with organizing family events and children's workshops through the University of Arizona's Poetry Center when she was an undergraduate student in Tucson, Arizona, to the more recent planning of various reading events for student, local, and national writers in Missoula, Montana. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Montana where she now teaches English and writing courses and serves as the Program Coordinator for the BFA in Creative Writing.

Jade Taylor is a graduate student at the University of Montana, where she studies fiction. Originally from Eastern Montana, much of her work reflects her upbringing on the high plains. 

Talie Wilkinson is a sophomore from San Diego, California studying creative writing at the University of Montana. She is the current editor of UM's undergraduate literary magazine, The Oval. Besides writing she loves rock climbing, volunteer DJ-ing at the campus radio station, backpacking and reading. 

Aundrea Glick is an undergraduate junior majoring in Creative Writing at the University of Montana. Originally from Belt, Montana, she is excited to be taking part in a Creative Writing Workshop in her hometown. Aundrea is an avid reader, writer, and artist. She will be pursuing a career in a publishing position as an editor or literary agent.

Jeff is an Adj. Asst. Professor of English at the University of Montana and former director of the English Teaching Program. A poet, playwright, and educator, Jeff earned his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the UM and is founder and director of the Montana Valley Players and Education Director at the Belt Performing Arts Center. Jeff participated in Shakespeare’s Globe: “Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance” program in 2013. Jeff also directed the 2017 and 2019 Belt Valley Shakespeare Performances for the American High School Theater Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.