BK is the author of the award winning novel Theft, the essay collections Animal, Mineral, Radical, and Way of the River — along with many award-winning essays and short stories. Like other writers, she has worked so many odd jobs that her friends often ask her, “Oh, was that when you were a one-legged pirate on the south seas?” The publishing editor of her first book told her she writes like she was raised by wolves. She tries to live up to that daily.

Alma is the author of the novel All That Rises (University of Arizona Press, 2023), which has been described as “a propulsive, atmospheric, possibly epic, often funny story of family secrets, lies, and border politics”. Her short fiction has appeared as an award-winner in Narrative Magazine and elsewhere and has most recently appeared in phoebe and in the anthology Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. Originally from El Paso and later from Albuquerque, she lives in Seattle, where she teaches fiction writing at Hugo House, offers manuscript consultation, serves as a literary mentor through Artists Up, and is an occasional rock band violinist.

Nancy lives in Santa Cruz, California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Adroit Journal, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Massachusetts Review, River Styx, American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Punishment, was published as part of the Rattle chapbook series. She co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison, Santa Cruz County Jails and Juvenile Hall. She has a B.A. from The University of California, San Diego, a J.D. from the University of San Diego and an MFA from Pacific University. She is currently working on a collection of personal essays. Her first full-length poetry manuscript is now available from YesYes Books.