Clancy McGilligan is the winner of the 2019 Miami University Press Novella Prize with History of an Executioner. He grew up in Milwaukee and has worked as a journalist in the U.S. and abroad. His writing has appeared in publications such as Slice Magazine, Sycamore Review, Columbia Journal, Santa Monica Review, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and Film International.  

Rachel Levy is a founding editor of Dreginald magazine and the author of A Book So Red (Caketrain). Short fictions appear in Atticus Review, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, Western Humanities Review, and others. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Prose, Levy is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.