Paula Carter, Mark Turcotte, & Miles Harvey

MILES HARVEY won the 2023 Journal Non/Fiction Prize for The Registry of Forgotten Objects, a collection of short stories released this fall by Mad Creek Books. He is the author of three works of nonfiction, The King of Confidence, Painter in a Savage Land and The Island of Lost Maps, a national and international bestseller. Harvey teaches creative writing at DePaul, where he chairs the Department of English, serves as director of the DePaul Publishing Institute and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher.

PAULA CARTER is the author of the flash memoir collection No Relation, which was shortlisted for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan International Prize. Her award-winning essays have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. She was an Administrative Staff Fellow at the Bread Loaf Environmental Conference in 2022 and…