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| Kristen Iversen | 
Originally from  Colorado, 
Kristen Iversen writes nonfiction and fiction and is the  author of the bestselling 
Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, the textbook  
Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction, and the  forthcoming memoir 
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of Rocky  Flats,  as well as other books, essays, and stories.  She has taught in  MFA  programs around the country and currently teaches at the University  of  Memphis, where she directs the writing program and is also   editor-in-chief of the award-winning literary journal 
The Pinch.
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| Steven Church | 
Steven Church is the  author of 
The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst, Theoretical  Killings: Essays and Accidents, and 
The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir of  Record. His essays and stories have been published widely and he’s a  founding editor of the literary magazine, 
The Normal School.
 
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| Greg Larson | 
Artist and  photographer 
Greg Larson was  born and raised in the Midwest. Following  his graduation from the  University of California, Santa Cruz with a  degree in art, he spent  many years living and working in Japan and has  traveled extensively  around the world.  Influenced by contemporary  American landscape  painters as well as traditional Japanese brushwork,  his paintings and  drawings suggest discovery, journey, and the search  for spiritual  epiphany.  He currently studies at the School of the Art  Institute of  Chicago.
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| Wendy Sumner-Winter | 
Wendy Sumner Winter has been a chef, gallery  owner,  photographer, painter, curator and community organizer, among  other  things. She has served as an editor in various capacities,  including  managing editor for The Pinch. Her nonfiction, poetry and  fiction have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Missouri Review,  Fourth Genre, Switchback, Swill, flashquake, The Pinch, Word Riot, and  Monkeybicycle.  She is the coordinator of alumni and constituent relations, and teaches  writing, at The  University of Memphis, and cooking wherever invited.