Kaylee Zou is an MFA student concentrating in fiction at North Carolina State University. For her Bachelor's, she went to Johns Hopkins University and double majored in Writing Seminars and English Literature. She is also an associate literary agent for Williamson Literary, a literary agency based in Baltimore, Maryland, and a Communications Specialist for the U.S. Department of Energy. Kaylee is currently working on her first novel titled Not That It Matters. Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Fiction, the Southern Book Prize, and the Weatherford Award, and selected as a Kirkus Best Book of 2020 and a Best LGBT Book by O Magazine. His debut novel The Evening Hour was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. His writing has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, and Guernica. Carter is an assistant professor of creative writing at North Carolina State University.
Sex Romp Gone Wrong is Julia Ridley Smith’s first story collection. Her first book, The Sum of Trifles, is a memoir published by the University of Georgia Press (2021) as a title in their Crux literary nonfiction series. Julia’s short stories and essays have appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, Arts and Letters, the Carolina Quarterly, Chelsea, Ecotone, Electric Literature, the Greensboro Review, the New England Review, Southern Cultures, and The Southern Review, among other places. Julia teaches creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill.
Lauren Baker is an MFA student in fiction at North Carolina State University. She recently worked in natural resource management and fire management with California State Parks, and currently writes ecofiction about queer women in blue collar work. Her short stories have appeared in Cleaver Magazine, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and others.
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