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Runner-up Winner—Creative Prose
Renate Wildermuth’s articles, stories and essays have appeared in The San Francisco
Chronicle, The Miami Herald, Adirondack Life Magazine, Collidescope, and on public
radio. She writes for Inkitt on their Galatea reading app and has a young adult book
forthcoming from Regal House Publishing, and a novel out with Totally Entwined Group.
Contributors
James B. Nicola’s poems have appeared in the Antioch, Southwest and Atlanta Reviews;
Rattle; and Barrow Street. The latest of his eight full-length poetry collections are
Natural Tendencies, Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense, and Turns & Twists. His
non昀椀ction book Playing the Audience won a Choice magazine award. A graduate of Yale,
he has received a Dana Literary Award, two Willow Review awards, Storyteller's People's
Choice award, one Best of Net, one Rhysling, and eleven Pushcart nominations—for
which he feels both stunned and grateful.
Hayley Pisciotti is a Boston-based writer and Editorial Associate at Ploughshares.
Currently pursuing her MFA at Emerson College, she also works at local bookstore and
will be teaching composition at Emerson this Fall. Her other work has been recognized by
Writer's Digest, The Tributary, and Quilted Voices.
Penny Walker is director of ASU News at Arizona State University, where she is studying
creative writing. She previously worked at The Arizona Republic newspaper for 16 years,
mainly on the editing side. Penny is an emerging speculative 昀椀ction writer. Her story
"From Dust" won Ninth Letter's Regeneration contest, and her futuristic menu placed
third in the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture's Future of Food 2050 writing contest.
She lives in Tempe, Arizona, with her husband and a large supply of yarn.
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