Dana Fitz Gale is an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Montana and the winner of the 2011 Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and an anthology. She lives in Missoula, Montana with her husband and their two sons. She is working on a novel. 

 
Fiction Judge Hilary Masters is the author of 17 books. Post, a Fable,  his tenth novel, was just released from BkMk press in 2011. His work has received the Balch Prize for fiction, the Monroe Spears Prize for the essay and has been noted in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies.  In 2003 the American Academy of Arts and Letters presented him its Award for Literature.   He lives in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Doris Ferleger is a practicing psychologist and was Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 2009. Her first book of poetry Big Silences in a Year of Rain (Main Street Rag), was a finalist for the Alice James Books Beatrice Hawley Award. She is the recipient of the 2011 New Letters Prize for Poetry and the 2010 winner of the Robert Fraser Poetry Competition. Her chapbook, When You Become Snow, was a semi-finalist for the 2008 Black Lawrence Press chapbook competition. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Krakow Poetry Conference in Krakow Poland at the invitation of Ed Hirsch, among others.