Debra Spark is the author of 4 novels, 2 collections of short stories, and 2 books of essays on fiction writing, as well as numerous articles, stories, and book reviews in places like Dwell, Esquire, Food and Wine, Maine Home+Design, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Yankee. She is a professor at Colby College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Deborah Joy Corey is the author of 2 novels, a memoir, and many essays and short stories that have been published in literary journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, The Agni Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Crescent Review, New Letters, Windsor Review, and Toronto Globe and Mail. She is the recipient of numerous prizes, including Smithbooks/Canada Novel Award, Elle's Lettres Reader's Prize, and the Short Story Prize at Symphony Space. Deborah is the founder of Blue Angel, a hunger nonprofit, which delivers healthy produce from local farmers to those in need.