Managing Editor of Sundress Publications, Stirring: A Literary Collection, & Best of the Net Anthology

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the founder and managing editor of Sundress and author of The Fear of Being Found (Three Candles Press, 2008) and The Naming of Strays (Gold Wake Press, 2011). Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines including Mid-American, 32 Poems, New Delta Review, The Yalobusha Review, The Florida Review, Cimarron Review, Third Coast, and Crab Orchard. Erin earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and is currently a full-time lecturer at the University of Tennessee where she teaches poetry writing and literature.

Associate Editor of Sundress Publications; Managing Editor of Flaming Giblet Press

T.A. Noonan is the author of two hybrid-genre collections, The Bone Folders (Sundress Publications) and Petticoat Government (Gold Wake Press), as well as the chapbooks Darjeeling (Ahadada Books) and Balm (Flaming Giblet Press). Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, The Superstition Review, RHINO, specs, Phoebe, and many others. She is the assistant editor of Sundress Publications, as well as the founder and managing editor of both Flaming Giblet Press and grain short/grain long. Currently, she lives on Florida's Treasure Coast with her husband.

Assistant Editor of Sundress Publications; Artist-in-Residence

Rhonda Lott has been an associate poetry editor for Stirring since 2008 and the broadside editor since 2010. Her poems have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, cream city review, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She received her master's degree from The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and is currently a doctoral candidate and part-time instructor at Texas Tech University.

Assistant Editor of Sundress Publications

Meagan Cass is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois-Springfield. She holds a BA in English and Philosophy from Binghamton University, an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana Lafayette, where she was a founding editor of the online literary journal Rougarou. Meagan's stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, The Pinch, Devil's Lake, Hobart Web, NO… Journal, Grist, Stymie, Aethlon, and others. Her current book project is a collection of short fiction themed around sports, games, and memory, set in the suburbs of New York City in the 1980s and 1990s.

Editor of Wicked Alice

A writer and visual artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of several book and chapbook projects, including brief history of girl as match and in the bird museum. She lives in Chicago, where she edits wicked alice and runs dancing girl press & studio, an indie press and design studio.

Editor of Trailer Park Quarterly

Daniel Crocker is the author of two collection of poetry, a collection of short stories, and the novel The Cornstalk Man. His third collection of poetry, Like a Fish, was released by Sundress Publications in 2011. Crocker is a graduate from The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, and he currently lives in Leadwood, MO, where he works as a short order cook and substitute teacher.

Editor of Intentional Walk

Greg Weiss' work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, African American Review, Southeast Review, and others. He is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Editor of Sunsets and Silencers

Charles Campbell is founder and editor of Sunsets and Silencers. He lives and writes in Buffalo, NY where he teaches College English and Public Speaking at Bryant and Stratton College. As both a writer and teacher, he's received such grants and honors as the Madonna Marsden Fiction Award, the Julia Visor Award, presented annually by the National College Learning Center Association, and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaurate Achievement Program Grant, a grant provided by the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaurate Achievement Program.

Sundress Intern

A recent graduate of UT-Knoxville's Creative Writing Program, Kyle Gray spends his days with at least one dog at his leg. The other days he writes, reads, and thinks poetry. Within the year, he plans on applying to graduate schools or moving to Nashville, or both.