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Jon M. Sweeney, author of When St. Francis Saved The Church as well as the recent bestseller The Pope Who Quit, has worked in book publishing for 25 years and since 2004 has been editor-in-chief of Paracletes Press in Massachusetts. The Press’ website notes: “Today he is a Catholic but prays most regularly with his wife, Michal Woll, who is the rabbi of the Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation.” They live in Ann Arbor, and in 2013 published Mixed-Up Love: Relationships, Family, and Religious Identity in the 21st Century.

Raised in Detroit, Lisa Lenzo now lives in southwestern Michigan, where she drives and dispatches for the local bus company and writes. Lenzo’s first story collection, Within the Lighted City, was chosen by Ann Beattie for an Iowa Short Fiction Award and published by the University of Iowa Press. Lisa Lenzo’s second story collection, Strange Love, was published by Wayne State University Press through itsMade in Michigan Writers Series in May 2014.
 Andy Mozina grew up in Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. He earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University. He moved to St. Louis where he completed a doctorate in English literature at Washington University. Finally, after graduate school, he moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1999 to teach literature and creative writing at Kalamazoo College. Mozina’s first collection, The Women Were Leaving the Men (2007, Wayne State University Press), is the winner of the 2008 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction and a 2008 finalist for the Glassgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. He is also the author of Joseph Conrad and the Art of Sacrifice (2001, Routledge).