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Bailey Gaylin Moore’s essays have appeared in Willow Springs, Hobart, AGNI, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Online editor and social media manager of Past Ten, she is a doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Missouri. Other work can be found at baileygaylinmoore.com, and you can follow her on Twitter @bgaymoore and Instagram @baileygaylin. (updated 2/2021)

Donald Quist is the author of the linked story collection For Other Ghosts and the nonfiction collection Harbors. His work has appeared in Poets & Writers, AGNI, North American Review, The Rumpus, Hunger Mountain, J Journal, and elsewhere, and has been cited as notable in The Best American Essays. He was a finalist in the 2017 International Book Awards and runner-up for the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize. Creator of the online nonfiction series Past Ten, he is a Gus T. Ridgel Fellow in the doctoral program in English at the University of Missouri. (updated 10/2020)