Allan Vorda was born in Evanston, raised in Omaha, and has lived in Sugar Land for decades.  He has degrees in English from Creighton University (BA) and University of Nebraska at Omaha (MA). Previous publications include Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists (Rice University Press) and Psychedelic Psounds: Interviews from A to Z with 60s Psychedelic and Garage Bands (Borderline Productions/UK).

Mark Haber is the author of the 2008 story collection Deathbed Conversions and the novel Reinhardt’s Garden, longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, was published in 2022. He is the operations manager at Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Texas. His nonfiction has appeared in the Rumpus, Music & Literature, and LitHub. His fiction has appeared in Southwest Review and Air/Light.

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