Sean Enfield is an essayist, poet, gardener, bassist, and educator from Dallas, TX. Currently, he resides in Milwaukee, WI where he is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of Permafrost Magazine. Now, he serves as an Assistant Nonfiction Editor at Terrain.org. His own work is forthcoming from or has been published in Black Warrior Review, Reed Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry, Witness Magazine, Terrain.org, Tahoma Literary Review, and The Rumpus, among others. His essays have been nominated for three Pushcarts and twice for Best of the Net and were twice listed as Notable in Best American Essays. He was the 2020 recipient of the Fourth Genre’s Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize and was a featured on NPR’s All Things Considered as a finalist for their Three Minute Fiction contest. His debut essay collection, Holy American Burnout!, was the runner-up for the Ann Petry Award judged by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, a finalist for The Megaphone Prize judged by Hanif Abdurraqib, a finalist for River Teeth’s Literary Nonfiction Book Prize judge by Natasha Trethewey, and is now forthcoming from Split/Lip Press in December 2023.

Chris George is the author of The Occultation (Surveyor Books), which was named one of LitReactor’s best books of 2021. His story “Ghost Town” was nominated by Heavy Feather Review for Best of the Net 2023. He lives and teaches in Dallas, TX.