Nick Courtright is Co-Executive Editor and book designer for Gold Wake Press, and the founder and Executive Editor of Atmosphere Press. He is the author of Let There Be Light, called “a continual surprise and a revelation” by Naomi Shihab Nye, and Punchline, a National Poetry Series finalist. His poetry has appeared in many literary journals, including The Southern Review, Kenyon Review Online, Boston Review, and The Iowa Review, among numerous others, and essays and other prose of his have been published by such places as The Huffington Post, The Best American Poetry, Gothamist, and SPIN Magazine.

He has taught classes ranging from Creative Writing to American Literature to Writing for Publication to Romanticism to Media Studies to Philosophy at St. Edward’s University, Southwestern University, Texas State University, Concordia University, Austin Community College, Central Texas College, and elsewhere. His YouTube channel analyzing famous works of literature has garnered a half a million views, and currently, he is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Texas, where he studies the nature of literary interpretation.

Kimbol Soques has been writing since before she got her first typewriter at age 3. A poet from the beginning, she’s been praised for her incisiveness and clarity in all forms, no doubt because she hates to say things twice. She majored in English literature at Rice University, but then took a long detour through high tech. (Though even there she was published in Sysadmin Magazine.) In poetry, she strives to pare down to the bone, using white space like breath. Publications sharing her work include Non-Binary Review, Gyroscope Review, and di-vêrsé-city, and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net. She lives, studies at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and writes in Austin, Texas.