Jack Goodman lives on a small farm west of Buhl where he raises Dexter cattle. His
collection of poetry about animals of the northwest, "Wind Songs From Turtle's
Back," was published in 2009. His work has appeared in Mountain Gazette and
cowboypoetry.com.
Betti Carol Taylor is a writer and scholar working with 20th century American
history. She holds a History Master’s from the University of South Dakota and retired
from the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. She has taught
English Composition at the College of Southern Idaho since 2006 and lives in Buhl.
Judy Grigg Hansen loves people, words, and the mountains, canyons, and deserts of
Idaho. Hansen teaches English at the College of Southern Idaho and writes poetry
and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Idaho Statesman, Idaho Magazine, Time
Magazine, The Ensign and other publications.
Kayla Miller is currently a second-year MFA Fiction candidate at the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas. She hails from the southside of Atlanta, Georgia, where she was
born and raised. She is the author of the fiction chapbook See & Be Seen & Be Scene,
published by Five [Quarterly], and her work has appeared in the journals Tahoma Literary
Review, Gesture, and The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, among others. She writes about the
South, the grotesque, and ugly people doing ugly things.
Katharine Webb recently graduated from Utah State University with an array of
interests. They include Japanese, a minor in Folklore, and double majors, in Spanish
and English: Creative Writing. She's compared two epics, The Sunjata / The Ramayana
at an honors conference and traveled to Costa Rica and Spain.
Janel Myers grew up in a small Southern Idaho town, a stone’s throw from Twin
Falls. She attended CSI in 1987 and found herself back in 2014 for a creative writing
course. Between the years, she studied theater and education, and fell in love with
Montana. This is her first story.