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Cecil Price Walden writes music “of powerful emotional intensity and passion . . . that is almost impossibly gorgeous.”—Journal of Singing. Named a “Hero of the New South” by Southern Living magazine, Walden draws on the rich musical, literary, and culinary legacies of place to create work that is both familiar and new

Monica Lee Weatherly is a poet, writer, and professor of English at Georgia State University’s Perimeter College. She is the 2023 winner of Georgia Author of the Year for her chapbook of poetryIt Felt Like Mississippi, a 2023 Key West Literary Seminar Fellowship recipient, and the 2021 winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern … Continued

Zach Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. His story “Trial Run,” published in The Paris Review, was one of three winners of 2023 ASME Awards for Fiction. Originally … Continued