Kirun Kapur grew up in Hawaii and has since lived and worked in North America and South Asia. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Literary Imagination, Crab Orchard Review, Third Coast, BPJ, The Christian Science Monitor, Manushi and other journals and news outlets. She has been a poetry fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Vermont Studio Center and McDowell Colony.
Kirun lives in Newburyport, MA with her husband and son. She believes in bacon, road trips and cocktails.
Dawne Shand is an adventure guide to a five-year old spit-fire, house painter, erstwhile freelance writer and author of a forthcoming book about race, terrorism and wilderness in Alabama’s Black Belt. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, a masters from the I.E.H.E.I in Nice, France and a BA in economics and French literature from the University of Alabama.
