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Kelly Chastain holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in The Burrow Press Review, The San Joaquin Review and Citron Review, among others. Her travel writing has been anthologized in Traveler’s Tales Best Travel Writing, and notable essays in Best American Essays. She’s been supported by fellowships and residencies in Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, and France. She grew up on a farm and has literally shoveled shit until the cows came home. You can find her at kellychastain.com or on her other Substack, Birdcage Fugitive, where she will help you design the creative sabbatical of your dreams.

Bri Castellini is a bi, asexual independent filmmaker, an indie romance author, and, regrettably, a podcaster. She’s known for the 2017 short film Ace and Anxious, her contemporary romance novel Rehabbing the Billionaire, and her podcasts Burn, Noticed and Breaking Out of Breaking In, covering the USA television show Burn Notice and practical filmmaking advice, respectively. She can lick her elbow (not clickbait), and has a BA in Creative Writing, an MFA in Writing and Producing for Television, and achieved a personal reading record in 2025 after having read 409 romance novels in a single year (that one is clickbait). You can find her at BriCastellini.com or on her other Substack, Forced Proximity.

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