Nicole Burdge is a medical scientist and fiction writer whose story, “Lost in Transformation,” was featured in The Masters Review’s New Voices series. She is a graduate of the Northeast Ohio MFA program, a lifelong reader and writer who has a hard drive full of unpublished projects. She lives with her husband and dog in Akron, where she is writing a novel that she is confident will finally land her a book deal.

Michael Credico is the author of Heartland Calamitous (Autumn House Press) which was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection and The 2021 Story Prize. His fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Hobart, New Ohio Review, NOÖ Journal, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, and others. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. His website is www.michaelcredico.com.