Abby Mendelson, Ph.D., teaches writing and literature in the Chatham University MFA program. An award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, his most recent novel is The Oakland Quartet. Tacoma resident
Vincent Rendoni has an MFA in Fiction from Chatham University. He released his chapbook, In the Methow Valley, in 2011, and has previously published in The Rind, Shady Side Review, and FictionBrigade. Their flash fiction has appeared in Fiction Southeast, Lime Hawk, and Burrow Press Review.