Joy Clark received her MFA from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR in 2020. She works for the local nonprofits Art Ventures and The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, and is the new 2022 editor for eMerge. Her work can be read in places such as The Kenyon Review Online, Pleiades Magazine, and Bayou Magazine.

Charles Templeton is an Editor Emeritus of eMerge, the online magazine of The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and the author of the Amazon bestselling novel, Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam. Charles also compiled and edited The Dairy Hollow Exco: An Anthology of Selected Works from eMerge, the Online Magazine of the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow.

Sallie Crotty has published many places, including The Dairy Hollow Echo; The Drabble; eMerge; and Resources to Recover. The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow awarded her a residency in 2018. Sallie holds a B.A. in English from Sewanee: The University of the South and an Ed.M. from Harvard. Currently, she is pursuing her MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. She is working on a poetry collection. Her memoir Out of the Ashes: A Story of Recovery and Hope released in June 2022.

Crescent Dragonwagon is the co-founder of WCDH, and the author of 54 published books, one produced play, numerous magazine articles and blog posts, spanning seven different genres. Her most recent books are WILL IT BE OKAY? with Cameron/Abrams, illustrated by Jessica Love, and THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: DAIRY HOLLOW HOUSE SOUP & BREAD, A COUNTRY INN COOKBOOK… for WCDH was once an inn and Crescent, with her late husband, Ned Shank, a co-innkeeper. She now lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

I am originally from Houston, Texas. I moved to NW Arkansas in 2003 for the pristine and challenging natural environment of the Ozark forests. Now, I am a retired teacher, and finally have time to work on my writing projects. I am a member of the Ozark Mountain Poets and Poet’s Roundtable of Arkansas. I have enjoyed reading my poetry at many open mic opportunities around NW Arkansas for many years.

Author of The Golem Verses, Flashes & Specks, and The Golem Returns, Diane's poems also appear in Nine Mile Literary Magazine, Wordgathering, Tammy, Queerly, The South Carolina Review, Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest, and elsewhere. Diane’s creative nonfiction appears in Stone Canoe, Mollyhouse, The Abstract Elephant Magazine, and Pop the Culture Pill. Her flash fiction appears in Ordinary Madness; short fiction is in A Coup of Owls.

Ruth Mitchell’s career as a travel writer took her many places. Her gigs as a freelancer educated her in the ways of the world. Her positions as an editor for At Home in Arkansas and Arkansas Business taught her to manage lots of little fires. As the author of Arkansas Heritage, a state-adopted elementary history text, she learned to be accurate. As a novelist she's learning her toughest lesson yet, how to engage readers through stories. Her novel White Oak can be purchased online. She is currently working on a new novel that will really wow readers.

Poetry, mixed media, sculpture, painting, and music are my passions. Meditation, Tai Chi, drumming, photography, nature, and helping people connect with themselves and their work through visual journaling are other activities I enjoy. My poems and art have been published, and my art has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and other venues. I create at Earthglow Studios on the half acre where I live with two yorkies and a small, fruit-loop-colored sun conure in Oklahoma.

F.C. Shultz is an author and poet whose work has appeared in Every Day Fiction, the Of Gods and Globes anthology, Ekstasis Magazine, and others. He loves writing stories that place one fantasy element into an otherwise realistic world. He's published four fiction books, and two poetry collections. He’s the poetry editor for The Joplin Toad and lives in the Midwest with his wife and two kids.

I am a northwest Arkansas writer of mostly poems and essays. I have lived in the Ozarks for over 19 years and have a Pekingese named Tricki Woo after The dog in All All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot.

Treziel Mae Mayores is a college student in the Philippines who likes getting lost in her thoughts. She spends most of her time writing on her blog called Ramblification. She loves the rainy season but she treats the sun as her muse.

Kathryn Lorenzen is a career coach, creativity coach, singer/songwriter, and poet. Her songs have appeared in feature films and TV series including The Americans and Last Man On Earth. In partnership with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, she is co-leader of Your Right Livelihood, and you can find her songs on most streaming services.

I'm a chowder-loving Bostonian turned lactose-intolerant resident of Evanston, where I’m raising two unpredictably delightful children. I teach English in Chicago at the Parker School and adult ed seminars at the Newberry Library, and for years I’ve been working on a memoir about my grandfather, a prolific writer for radio and television who took himself from Ellis Island to The Today Show, damaged my pelvic floor, and hoodwinked 55 million Americans. He also saved you from syphilis.

Anna Gall with her husband, Dean live in historic St. Charles, Missouri. Anna travels, gardens, cooks, teaches culinary classes at the local community college, antiques, reads, and writes two blogs on topics she is most passionate about, organic gardening, kitchen creations, home life, and wholeness as a woman. During her summer 2021 residency at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, Anna started her first book, a series of short stories with a culinary theme. Its publication should be in 2022.

Over twenty years ago, I began to study and practice Reiki, Mindfulness, and Intuition, leading from working in marketing and communications in corporate American to becoming an Energy Worker, Intuitive Coach/Mentor, Podcaster, and Writer. I live each day with purpose by trusting my vibes to uncover the next adventure. One being working through my insecurities to transform my writing into published work. It is my hope that these shared experiences, aha moments, and funny stories can help you connect to your own whispers of wisdom.

Don Mitchell is a Black American poet and performer currently writing in Ellenwood, GA.

Raquel Lesser graduated from Manhattanville College with a degree in digital media. She has five published books since she was 16 years old. She has a passion for writing and has been writing since she was little. She went to Putney Camp, Bryn Mawr writing camp, and Sarah Lawrence writing camp. She attended Yale Writers' Workshop and she is going to be a resident at The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow.