JILL NOEL KANDEL

is the winner of the 2014 Autumn House Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Her first book, "A Sliver of Shade: Six Years in a Zambian Village," is forthcoming, spring 2015, from Autumn House Press. She is the runner-up of the 23rd Annual Missouri Review Jeffry E. Smith Editors' Prize and her work has been anthologized in "Best Spiritual Writing 2012" (Penguin Books) and in "Becoming: What Makes a Woman" (University of Nebraska, 2012). Her essays have been published in The Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, Pinch, and Image.

Amy Peterson

has been living in the Fargo/Moorhead area since 1997 when she began her freshman year at Concordia College. While unsure of how she would use her degree in English Literature and Communications, she found a job after graduation that allowed her to put her new-found knowledge to good use and helped her pay off those pesky student loans. Though she is originally from Long Lake, MN, a western suburb of Minneapolis, she, along with her husband and their four children, is proud to call Fargo home.