Meg Eden is the author of Drowning in the Floating World, a collection of poems that immerses us into the Japanese natural disaster known as 3/11: the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Meg’s father has worked in Japan for more than half her life, so she considers Japan her second home. Her work is published in magazines including Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO and CV2. She teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College and the MA program at Southern New Hampshire University. She is the author of five poetry chapbooks and the novel Post-High School Reality Quest (2017). She runs the Magfest MAGES Library blog, which posts accessible academic articles about video games. 

Read “Town Hall” from Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden

Kate Hill Cantrill is the author of Walk Back from Monkey School, a collection of short and flash-fiction. She has been awarded fellowships from The Corporation of Yaddo, The Jentel Artists' Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the James A. Michener fund. She has taught fiction writing at The University of the Arts, The University of Texas, and the Sackett Street Workshop in Brooklyn, where she lived for ten years and ran the Rabbit Tales Reading and Performance Series and hosted the How To Build A Fire Storytelling Series. She is presently looking for a home for two novels as she continues to go back to visit her love of the short story. She splits her time between Philadelphia and South Jersey.

Read “Walk Back from Monkey School,” the title story from Kate’s debut story collection.