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Christi Nogle

Christi Nogle is the author of the Bram Stoker Award® nominated novel Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media, 2022) and co-editor with Willow Dawn Becker of the Bram Stoker Award® nominated anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds, 2022). Christi's debut short story collection The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is out now from Flame Tree Press. Her collections Promise and One Eye Opened in That Other Place are coming from Flame Tree Press in 2023 and 2024. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including PseudoPod, Vastarien, Mooncalves, and Horror Library. Follow her at http://christinogle.com and on Twitter @christinogle

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Hannah Rodabaugh

Hannah Rodabaugh holds an MA from Miami University and an MFA from Naropa University. She is the author of three chapbooks, including We Don't Bury Our Dead When Our Dead Are Animals, a collection of Pushcart-nominated ecological elegies. Her writing is featured or forthcoming in The Indianapolis Review, Camas Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, Blueline Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, EcoTheo Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and others. She has been an artist-in-residence for the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management and received a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. When not writing, she volunteers for the Golden Eagle Audubon Society. She teaches at Boise State University and The Cabin.

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Benjamin Schwarting

Benjamin Schwarting is a fantasy author, high school English teacher, and co-owner of Williams & Rose Publishing. Author of The Sum of Ages series, Ben's work emphasizes writing complex fantasy cultures that highlight real-world issues of systemic oppression and social injustice. After earning his MAT, Ben has taught as an adjunct professor of Education at the College of Idaho and designed creative writing and young author's courses for high schoolers.

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Daniel Stewart

Daniel Stewart, a poet, is the author of the collection The Imaginary World, and a teaching-writer for The Cabin’s Writers in the Schools. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he won the Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace, and has published in BOAAT, Graviton Lit, NightBlock, Prairie Schooner, Puerto Del Sol, RATTLE, Sixfold, Skidrow Penthouse, Thrush Poetry Journal, Yes Poetry, and elsewhere.

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Tracy Sunderland

Tracy Sunderland loves storytelling and the particular demands of writing plays and screenplays. Her short films have won multiple festival awards and her first feature film script Tailor played in festivals all over the world and won the 2021 Best Screenplay award at Festival 36 Mostra de Valencia in Spain. Tracy holds an MA in filmmaking from London Film School and received the 2015 Fellowship in Filmmaking from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. She also teaches at Boise State University and received the Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award in 2015.

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Ayotola Tehingbola

Ayotola Tehingbola is earning her MFA in Creative Writing at Boise State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, Passages North, Hawaii Pacific Review, Pidgeonholes, You Need To Hear This, Kalahari Review, etc., and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. She is the recipient of the Winter 2022 Karen Finley Scholarship for Women and Nonbinary Writers at Hudson Valley Writers Center. She is also the recipient of a 2022 Glenn Bach Award for Fiction and an Alexa Rose Grant for her photography.

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Taylor Van Arsdale

Taylor Van Arsdale received her B.A. in Screenwriting magna cum laude from Loyola Marymount University while working concurrently in film development at HBO, Los Angeles. She then served two seasons as a script consultant for NBC Universal’s Writers on the Verge Diversity Workshop Program: facilitating the development of, overseeing content, and shepherding writers through script development. Her television writers have been staffed on shows: Cold Case, Burn Notice, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, 2 Broke Girl$, and Dark Skies. As a screenwriting instructor for Loyola Marymount University her students include The Austin Film Festival Best Comedy Screenplay Winner (2004), the Thrills & Chills Horror Winner (2005), and a Nicholls Semi-Finalist (2005). She then devoted 10 years to the field of journalism (Santa Monica Daily Press, The Malibu Times, Malibu Magazine, Creative Screenwriting Magazine and Cheapism.com). She has penned original screen works and adaptations, including a commission of the New York Times Bestseller A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss. Her debut creative narrative non-fiction, Cocaine to Bain: Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Inside Story of the Hollywood Guitar Center, is the recipient of two book awards, and her short story “The Dining Needle,” is a finalist in Onyx Publications Fall Edition Contest 2022, long listed in the Pigeon Review, and Highly Commended in the Letter Review. A Long Island native, she now resides in Meridian, Idaho with her fiancé and their wily rescue, Mr. Snugs.

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Kerri Webster

Kerri Webster is the author of four books of poetry: Lapis (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), The Trailhead (Wesleyan, 2018), Grand & Arsenal (University of Iowa, 2012), and We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone (University of Georgia, 2005). She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, at Boise State, and as a Writer in the Schools for the Cabin. The recipient of honors including the Whiting Award, the Lucille Medwick Award, the Iowa Prize, the Lynda Hull Memorial Prize, an Alexa Rose Foundation grant, and three Literature Fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Webster’s poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, The Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Guernica, The Washington Square Review, The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, Poetry Northwest, and the Beloit Poetry Journal.

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Megan Williams

Megan Williams is a poet and unschooling mother currently living in Boise, Idaho. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she received the John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in Poetry. Her work has appeared in Tin House, PANK, and Southern Indiana Review, among other journals, and was honored with an Alexa Rose Foundation grant in 2020. Previously, Megan founded the Ghosts & Projectors poetry reading series and served as the Education Programs Manager (among other roles) for The Cabin.

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