Michael Hettich has published a dozen books of poetry, most recently The Mica Mine, which won the 2020 Lena Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society and was published in 2021. A “new and selected” volume is forthcoming from Press 53 in 2023. His poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Orion, Poetry East, Boulevard, Rattle, Ploughshares, and Terrain.org. He lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Evan Fiscella is a non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns. They were born in New York and currently live in Boston. They write about their struggles with mental health and addiction.