ESSAYS

RYAN OBERHELMAN (“Boys and Guns”) is a graduate student of creative writing at the University of Wyoming. His work has appeared online in Prick of the Spindle and The Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review and his story, "Sheep of the Pasture," is forthcoming in The Florida Review. Ryan enjoys writing about place — environment, landscape, people, and the interactions between them.

BENJAMIN HARNETT (“Ghosts and Empties”), born in Cooperstown, New York, in 1981, cofounded the fashion brand Hayden-Harnett with Toni Hacker, whom he married in 2014. Harnett is currently a senior digital infrastructure engineer at The New York Times. His poems and translations have appeared in The Columbia Review, been anthologized by Bright Hill Press, and won an International Merit Award from Atlanta Review. He can be found tweeting incessantly as @benharnett.

SAMUEL ADLER-BELL (“Disintegration Loops”) is a writer and political organizer in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in The Nation, Wag’s Revue, and In These Times.