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JERRY DENNIS’S many books—including The Living Great Lakes, The Windward Shore, and, most recently, Up North in Michigan: A Portrait of Place in Four Seasons—have been widely translated and have won numerous awards. His essays, stories, and poems have appeared in more than a hundred magazines and journals across the U.S. and abroad. He lives near Traverse City in northwest lower Michigan. For more, see: www.jerrydennis.net
DESIREE COOPER is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist. She is the author of an award-winning, flash fiction collection, Know the Mother. Cooper’s fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in Flash Fiction America 2023, Callaloo, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, River Teeth, and received an honorable mention in The Best American Essays 2019. Her first children’s book, Nothing Special, was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the ten best children’s books of 2022. For more, see: www.descooper.com