Brian Doyle (1956–2017), a longtime editor of Portland Magazine  at the University of Portland, Oregon, published more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. His essays appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, AGNI, The American Scholar, and The Sun Magazine, and in prize anthologies such as The Best American Essays, The Best American Science & Nature Writing, and The Best American Spiritual Writing. He won three Pushcart Prizes, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Burroughs Award for Nature Essays, and the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing.

Jason Myers grew up in Maryland, graduated from Bennington College, received his MFA from New York University, then drifted south. He now lives in Atlanta, where he is FTE Fellow at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cortland Review, AGNI, Indiana Review, The Paris Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. (updated 5/2010)