Kris Bigalk is the founder and director of the AFA Creative Writing Program at Normandale Community College in Minnesota. Her poetry collections from NYQ Books are “Enough” (2019) and “Repeat the Flesh in Numbers” (2012).

Amy Margolis is the longtime director of the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa. She is currently writing a memoir-in-shards about being a dancer in the late ’70s, at the onset of the AIDS crisis.