Jonathan Burnette was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1988. Shortly after his birth, he and his father moved to Southern California. In 1995, he and his grandparents moved to Ruskin, Florida. In 2010, at the age of twenty-two, he enlisted in the United States Navy. He separated from the military on Thanksgiving Day, 2017. Jonathan enrolled in San Francisco State University the following spring, and graduated with a B.A. in English Literature in the fall of 2019. He transferred to the University of Central Florida in the spring of 2020, where he is pursuing an M.A. in the English—Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program. His academic interests lie in literary trauma theory and modernism. He lives in Winter Garden, Florida with his cat, Ricky.

Tiffanie Kelley is a graduate student in the MA-Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program. She is also a GTA in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric and teaches first-year-composition to UCF students. Her research interests include literary theory and life narrative, and she recently defended her thesis Life Narratives as Technologies of Self: Explorations of Agency in A Son of the Forest and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. She will begin a Ph. D. program in English Literature at USF this fall.

Sara is a second year student in the Masters in English Literary Cultural and Textual Studies Program. She received her bachelors in English Literature from UCF in 2018 and is an alumnus of the Burnett Honors College. Her research interests include literary modernism, the medical humanities, postcolonial, and gender studies. She maintains involvement in the UCF Huntseat Team and IHSA alumni division and plans to defend her thesis next Spring.