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Mary South is the author of the short story collection You Will Never Be Forgotten with FSG Originals. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University. For many years, she has worked as an editor at the literary journal NOON. Mary is also a former intern in The New Yorker's fiction department and a Bread Loaf work-study fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, BOMB, The Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, NOON, Words Without Borders, and The New Yorker. The writer Maile Meloy awarded her story "Not Setsuko" an honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All Story fiction contest. She lives in New York City.

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Eric Dean Wilson is the author of After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort (Simon & Schuster, 2021). Wilson’s writing has appeared in TIME, Esquire, Orion, Tin House, the Los Angeles Review of Books and BOMB, among other publications. He is currently working on a collection of essays about urban green space, queer ecology, and ecological mourning.

Wilson is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and American Literature at Wagner College, Staten Island. He earned his doctorate in English with a certificate in American Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY for his work on environmental literature. Previously, he taught climate-themed writing, creative writing, environmental literature, and environmental justice to undergraduates at Queens College, FIT, The New School, and Ramapo College of New Jersey. He holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School’s MFA program.

Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, he now lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

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Tracy Fuad’s second book of poetry, PORTAL (University of Chicago, 2024) won the 2023 Phoenix Emerging Poets Prize. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Fuad’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review and The New Republic and have been translated into Kurdish, Turkish, German, and Spanish. She lives in Berlin, where she teaches poetry and directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.