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Rilla Askew Editor & Author

Sara N. Beam is the Director of the Writing Program and Applied Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa.

Emily Dial-Driver is Professor of English and Humanities at Rogers State University.

Rilla Askew, born and raised in eastern Oklahoma, is the award-winning author of four novels, The Mercy Seat, Fire in Beulah, Harpsong, and Kind of Kin, and a collection of linked stories, Strange Business. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Juliet Evusa is Professor of Communications at Rogers State University.