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Driftless: an Anthology of Voices from Where We Live brings together essays and poems that write about place through the lenses of family, love, work, home & un-homedness, welcome and exclusion, creativity & open space. Here, the reader will find the unique geology and geography of the Driftless Region, queer rural spaces, generational farming communities, the area's indigenous history, European migration, and a contemporary space peopled with creatives. Featuring work by: Hannah Adalance, Jerry Apps, Coleman, Tamara Dean, Dale Easley, George Hesselberg, Margot Higgins, Christopher Hommerding, Rebecca Jamieson, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Kevin Koch, Andrea Larson, Christel Maass, Curt Meine, Steve Alden Nelson, Justin O'Brien, Jeremy Payne, Rachel Peller, Lynda Schaller, Jacquelyn Thomas, Denise Thornton, Franciszka Voeltz, Catherine Young

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Christina Kubasta (managing editor) writes poetry, fiction, and hybrid forms. Her most recent book is the poetry collection Under the Tented Skin. She is the executive director at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point. She also serves as the president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and poetry editor at Brain Mill Press.Sheree L. Greer (editor) is a writer, teacher, and arts administrator living in Tampa, Florida. She is the author of two novels, Let the Lover Be and A Return to Arms. Her work has been published online and in print at the Bellevue Literary Review, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Burrow Press Review, Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction, VerySmartBrothas, Autostraddle, Windy City Times, Full Bleed literary journal, Current: An Anthology for Jackson, Mississippi, Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast, and others. In 2014, she founded Kitchen Table Literary Arts to showcase and support the work of BIPOC women and femme-identified nonbinary writers and poets. Sheree holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and is a VONA/VOICES alum, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice grantee, Yaddo fellow, and Ragdale Artist House Rubin fellow. Her essay, ""Bars,"" published in Fourth Genre, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was notably named in The Best American Essays 2019. Her essay, ""None of This Is Bullshit,"" was published at The Rumpus and featured in ""Memoir Mondays."" Her latest Pushcart Prize-nominated work, ""If You Scared Say You Scared,"" was published in Bellevue Literary Review. A founding member of the southern arts collective, The Rubber Bands, Sheree also curates an annual arts exhibition at the intersection of visual, performing, and literary art.Stormy Stipe (editor) has published fiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays in such journals as The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, American Book Review, and The Walrus. She earned her doctorate from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and her BA from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

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