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Justin Gardiner Author

Justin Gardiner is a lecturer of creative writing at Auburn University. His first book of poems has been chosen as a finalist for both the Brittingham/Pollak Prize and the Four Way First Book Prize, among others; and his poems have appeared in journals that include the Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Southern Humanities Review, New South and ZYZZYVA.

John Griswold is an assistant professor in the MFA program at McNeese State University and the editor of the McNeese Review. He is the author of the novel A Democracy of Ghosts and of the nonfiction narrative Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana.