Lauren Haldeman works as the web developer, web designer, and editor for the Writing University website at the University of Iowa and the Iowa Review. Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014) is her first full-length collection of poetry. Find out more about her art and writing here. 

Shane McCrae is the author of Mule (CSU Poetry Center, 2010), Blood, Forgiveness Forgiveness, The Animal Too Big to Kill, and three chapbooks. He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award and a fellowship from the NEA. He teaches at Oberlin College and in the brief-residency M.F.A. program at Spalding University.