Agency 3

Teresa Carmody (she/they) is a writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. Their recent collection of autofictions, A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others, is out with Autofocus Books. She is also the author of The Reconception of Marie (Spuyten Duyvil 2020), Maison Femme: a fiction (bon air 2015), and Requiem, recently released in a new edition by punctum books (2025). Their writing has appeared in LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Michigan Quarterly Review, Matters of Feminist Practice, WaterStone Review, Lifework: On the Autobiographical Impulse in Contemporary Art, Writing, and Theory, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Omaha and teaches in the Writer's Workshop and low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at University of Nebraska Omaha. Find Carmody online at teresacarmody.com.

Kim Chinquee grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, served in the Air Force as a medical technologist, and worked as a med tech in various civilian clinics and hospitals, most recently during Covid. Her Covid novel, Pipette, was published in 2022 with Ravenna Press, and she is the author of Oh Baby (Ravenna Press 2008), Pretty (White Wine Press 2010), Veer (Ravenna Press 2017), Shot Girls (Ravenna Press 2018), Wetsuit (Ravenna Press 2019), and Snowdog (Ravenna Press 2021), as well as Pistol, which appears in the anthology Triple No. 3 (Ravenna Press 2012). She's received three Pushcart Prizes, is senior editor of New World Writing Quarterly, associate editor of Midwest Review, chief editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal), and director of SUNY-Buffalo State University's writing major. She's published widely, in journals and anthologies including NOON, Conjunctions, StoryQuarterly, Fiction, Notre Dame Review, The Nation, Buffalo Noir, Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms, The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women, The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, The & Now Award: The Best Innovative Writing, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, and others. She is a competitive triathlete, a USA Triathlon Certified Official, and she lives with her three dogs in Tonawanda, New York.

Allison Pitinii Davis, PhD, is the author of Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Baobab Press, 2017), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Ohioana Book Award, and Poppy Seeds (Kent State University Press, 2013) winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her creative writing and scholarship have appeared in Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The New Republic, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In Fall 2025, she will join Ohio State University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Poetry.