Teresa Carmody (she/they) is a writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. Her books include A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others (Autofocus, 2025), The Reconception of Marie (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), Maison Femme: a fiction (Bon Aire, 2015), and Requiem, recently rereleased by punctum books. In 2025, Boabab Press released their novella, Today Must Be Sunday, as part of Agency 3. Carmody lives in Omaha and teaches in the Writer’s Workshop and low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at University of Nebraska Omaha.
Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Onement Won (Wave, 2025) and Grief Sequence (Wave, 2019). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College and a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship.