KRISTY DEETZ is a Professor in the Art Discipline at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Her extensive exhibition record includes national and international venues and her paintings have been featured in a number of textbooks and magazines. She frequently gives workshops and serves as a visiting artist at venues including Haystack, Oxbow, Penland, and Arrowmont. UWGB awarded her the 2011 Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship and she received SECAC's 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2018, she served as Erasmus Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kassel, Germany, and as artist-in-residence at The Burren College of Art in Ireland. EDWARD S. LOUIS (pen name for E. L. Risden, Professor of English, St. Norbert College) lives, teaches and writes in Wisconsin. His hobbies include daily practice of tai chi chuan and Mediterranean cooking. Previous books include "The Monster Specialist" (2014), "Odysseus on the Rhine" (2005), "White Shoes" (2017), "The Streets of Harmon Falls" (2016). Louis has recently completed a new novel, "Between Such Distant Shores", and a collection of short stories, "A Brief History of Friendship".