FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS (2021)

Perry Guy is the writer for the creative team “The Painter and the Poet”—creators of numerous all-ages picture books, including The Mardi Gras Boat Parade and Treasures in the Sand. He has participated in the Mississippi Book Festival and partnered with Audubon to create a story walk across the beaches of Mississippi in 2021. Originally from Louisiana, Guy now resides in Bay St. Louis.

WHAT IS LOVE: DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF TRUE ROMANCE? (2022)

Jason Stuart is an English professor at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, where he serves as editor-in-chief of Illumination, the MGCCC literary journal. He writes pulp and pop culture-inspired fiction and is the author of seven books, including Raise a Holler and Jukebox Hero. Stuart resides on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Vickie Feazelle, PhD, is an experienced educator and oversees the District Curriculum for the Hancock County Schools. She has been part of the Live Oak Writing Project—an affiliate of the National Writing Project—for over 15 years. Vickie serves as the program’s co-director, facilitating a summer writing institute for professional development for area educators at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Park Campus in Long Beach.

AUGUST’S CLAIM (2011)

Oreathia Smith is a Mississippi native currently living in Georgia. She received a BA in English from Millsaps College and a MFA in Writing for the Screen and Television from the University of Southern California. She has been a been a writer on Issa Rae’s web-series Mis-Adventures of an Awkward Black Girl, won the BlueCat Screenplay Writing Contest in 2015 for her script Mona. Richy. Robby. And Ray., and was a semifinalist in the 2017 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Contest for her screenplay The Battle of Midnight Pony Glo. She has taught at Agnes Scott College, the Decatur Writer’s Studio, and the University of Southern Mississippi.