Emily Martin is a graduate instructor currently studying English at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Georgia College & State University where she also taught composition, creative writing, and literature courses. Her areas of interest are fiction writing, gender theory, Victorian literature, and children's literature. She has presented papers at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in New Orleans and the Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention in Houston.

Mary Stephens is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, specializing in children’s and young adult literature and disability studies. She has presented papers at the Children’s Literature Association Conference and the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. She received the 2016 Children’s Literature Association’s Honor Essay Award in the doctoral student category for her essay “Judy Blume’s Big Fat Problem: Bullying, Femininity, and Weight in Blubber.”

Tom Holmes is the editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics and the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently The Cave (winner of The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013), as well as four chapbooks. He earned his doctorate in English with Creative Writing emphasis from the University of Southern Mississippi in spring 2016. His writings about wine, poetry book reviews, and poetry can be found at his blog, _The Line Break_: http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/. Twitter: @TheLineBreak

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Max Macpherson earned her doctorate in English with Creative Writing emphasis from the University of Southern Mississippi in spring 2016. She is currently working on her Master's in political science at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her writings can be found in Coachella Review, Hypothetical Review, and Scintilla Press.

Olivia Bushardt is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, specializing in children’s and young adult literature and theories of tourism and travel. She has presented papers at the Children’s Literature Association Conference, the Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention, and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference.

Erin McLeod Gipson is a graduate student and composition instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her research focuses on narrative and narrative theory in 20th- and 21st- century literature, with a particular interest in unnatural narration, epistolary form, and narrative therapy. Other research interests include Southern literature and composition pedagogy. At the most recent International Conference on Narrative, Gipson presented a talk on her current project, “A Close Encounter with Death: Performative Omniscience in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief,” where she examines the humanlike narrative restrictions on the novel's supernatural narrator, Death.

Mary Beth Wolverton is a graduate student and composition instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi where she specializes in Victorian literature. She is currently writing her thesis on Bram Stoker's Dracula, trans/posthumanism, and Darwin. Her other research interests include children's and young adult literature. In 2016, she won first place in arts and humanities for her oral presentation at the Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Research Symposium.

Charles Hunter Joplin is a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern Mississippi, specializing in British literature from the past two centuries, especially Great War literature and Modernism, as well as historical prosody and textual criticism. He currently teaches World Literature and tutors students from all disciplines in USM’s Writing Center. He has published an article in Explicator and has a pending article to be published in War, Literature, and the Arts. He has presented papers at the PCA/ACA National Conference in New Orleans, the Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Research Symposium at USM, and the 3 Minute Thesis Competition.

Renée M. Bailey is a graduate student and composition instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi where she is working on a PhD in fiction at the Center for Writers. She has published in Red Mud Review as well as performed her ten-minute play, "Analogous" at the Roxy Regional Theatre in Clarksville, Tennessee. She recently received honorable mention for her prose piece at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Graduate Student Creative Writing Awards.

Stephanie Phillips began writing in Tennessee where she grew up. She is currently working towards her Master's degree in creative writing at the Center for Writers at USM. Formerly she worked for Sundress Publications, and served as an editor for USM's Product Magazine, Mississippi Review, and was a guest editor for the journal Stirring. In many instances she was able to incorporate her other talents, contributing photography and design to the final issues. She is sometimes also funny.

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Emily B. Stanback works at the intersections of British Romantic literature, disability studies, and the histories of medicine and science. Her book, The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2016) argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres―ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays―the book demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment was central to Romantic-era thought and Romantic-era aesthetics. 

She is co-curator of The Gravestone Project, a digital humanities project that explores eighteenth- and nineteenth-century graveyard cultures in the United Kingdom and the United States. She has published in Pedagogy, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, the Wordsworth Circle, Literature Compass, Romantic Circles, and the edited collection Disabling Romanticism. Prior to joining the Department of English at USM she was Haas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.