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TODD DAVIS is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry―Coffin Honey; Native Species; Winterkill; In the Kingdom of the Ditch; The Least of These; Some Heaven; and Ripe―as well as of a limited-edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, and Snow. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College. He lives in Tipton, Pennsylvania.

NOAH DAVIS is the author of The Last Beast We Revel In and Of This River. His poems and prose have appeared in the Sun, the Christian Science Monitor, Southern Humanities Review, Best New Poets, Orion, and the Year’s Best Sports Writing, among other publications. Davis earned an MFA from Indiana University and was raised along the Allegheny Front in Tipton, Pennsylvania.

CAROLYN MAHAN is professor of biology and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her work has been published in a variety of scientific journals including Environmental Management, Global Change Biology, Conservation Biology, and Journal of Mammalogy. Mahan currently serves on Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s Advisory Council for Conservation. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

SYDNEY LEA is a poet, essayist, and novelist whose many works include Young of the Year and A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling. He was founder and long time editor of the New England Review. In 2011 he was named the Poet Laureate of Vermont.

LEE UPTON is the author of three additional books of poetry: Approximate Darling (Georgia), The Invention of Kindness, and No Mercy, a past winner of the National Poetry Series Competition. Upton has also written three books of literary criticism, most recently The Muse of Abandonment: Origin, Identity, and Mastery in Five American Poets. She lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.