About the Editors

Lauren Francis-Sharma, a Pushcart nominated writer is the author of three novels, Book of the Little Axe, 'Til the Well Runs Dry, and her most recent, Casualties of Truth, a finalist for the 2026 Carol Shields Prize. Lauren serves as Vice President of the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Jennifer Grotz is a poet, the author most recently of Still Falling. Everything I Don't Know: The Selected Poems of Jerzy Ficowski, is her most recent book translations, co-translated from the Polish with Piotr Sommer and recipient of the PEN Award for Best Book of Poetry. She serves as the Arthur Satz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Rochester and is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences.