Amanda Erin Miller (left) is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer who earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Amanda’s nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in The Rumpus, Freerange Nonfiction, PEN America’s Temperature Check: Covid-19 Behind Bars, Sylvia Magazine, JewishFiction.net, Fearsome Critters, Quaranzine: Art in Isolation, Chortle, Cratelit, So Long: Short Memoirs of Loss and Remembrance, Underwired Magazine and other publications. She is the co-editor of Words After Dark: A Lyrics, Lit & Liquor Anthology (2020) and author of One Breath, Then Another: A Memoir (2012). Since 2012, she has produced Lyrics, Lit & Liquor, an NYC literary and performance series. Amanda serves on the Nonfiction committee for PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest and has toured her solo shows to festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Scotland.

Amy Dupcak (center) is the author of Dust, Short Stories (2016) and the co-editor and designer of Words After Dark: A Lyrics, Lit & Liquor Anthology (2020). Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Entropy, Sonora Review, Phoebe, Hypertext, Fringe, Litro, and other literary journals, while her poetry has been featured in Passengers, District Lit, The Night Heron Barks, and Alternative Field’s In Isolation anthology. She earned her MFA in Fiction from The New School and acts as the Fiction Editor of Cagibi. Amy has been leading creative and essay writing workshops at Writopia Lab since 2012, working primarily with teens, and also works with adults at The Writer’s Rock.

Clifford Brooks (right) is founder of the Southern Collective Experience and Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mountain Review. He hosts Dante’s Old South on NPR/WUTC and This Business of Music & Poetry. He’s written three books of poetry: The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Exiles of Eden. He currently travels the South writing his new collection, The Book of Old Gods.

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