email: salpertabrams@greenvilleschools.us

Saul Alpert-Abrams is a fiction writer, poet, and ceramicist. Originally from Massachusetts, Saul completed his undergraduate degree in Ancient Greek Literature at Oberlin College before moving to Los Angeles, where he founded Solarc Brewing, an experimental microbrewery. Saul holds his MFA from The University of Alabama, where he concentrated in fiction. He teaches English and Creative Writing at the North Carolina Governor's School.

His literary work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Mid-American Review, World Literature Today, Full Stop, and elsewhere. He is a reader for the New England Review, and his pottery has been displayed in juried shows around the United States.

email: lodonnell@greenvilleschools.us

Lydia O’Donnell is a teacher, writer, and editor who was raised across several states in the upper Midwest. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A. in History and American Studies (Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). In 2021, she completed a Fulbright Fellowship teaching High School English in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. She received her MFA from the University of Alabama where she taught undergraduate composition and creative writing while also serving as an editorial assistant for Victorians Institute Journal and the managing editor of Black Warrior Review. She is a former publishing fellow with The Los Angeles Review of Books. Her poetry and fiction can be found or is forthcoming in magazines including Strange Horizons, The Pinch, Luna Station Quarterly, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, and Emerald City. She has been nominated for a 2025 Best of the Net award and was a runner-up for the University of Alabama's Don F. Hendrie Jr. Prize in Fiction and the Jerome K. Phipps Prize in Poetry.