Marsh Island

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. As a young child she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and encouraged to take frequent nature walks. Today she is best known for her nature writing and regional works set along the coast of Maine. At nineteen, Jewett had a short story published in The Atlantic. She is the author of Deephaven (1877), Old Friends and New (1879), Country By-Ways (1881), A White Heron and Other Stories (1886), and A Native of Winby and Other Tales (1893). Her novels include A Country Doctor (1884) and The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). For most of her adult life, Jewett lived with her close friend, Annie Adams Field, in what was then termed a “Boston marriage.”Dorian Stuber is a passionate reader who now lives in St Louis. He is the co-host of the podcast One Bright Book and, because he is old-school, keeps up a blog about books with the ungainly but personal title Eigermonchjungfrau. For 20+ years he was an English professor, most recently at Hendrix College in Conway, AR, where he taught everything from composition to literary modernism to how to write a great personal statement. His area of specialization is Holocaust literature and he has written and taught extensively on the topic.Rebecca Hussey is a teacher, writer, and critic living in Connecticut. She is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and serves as Vice-President of Technology and Membership. Her writing has appeared in Full Stop, the Kenyon Review, Atmospheric Quarterly, the Rumpus, and more.Frances Evangelista is an educator in Washington DC with a history of leading literacy initiatives in Title 1 urban schools. She blogged about her own reading life at Nonsuch Book for over a decade, currently podcasts at One Bright Book, and has contributed to a variety of literary judging and nonprofit support systems.Allison Miriam Woodnutt (née Smith) is an Acquiring Editor and the Publishing & Publicity Manager for Unnamed Press as well as a co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and went on to earn her Masters in 18th & 19th c. Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Before Unnamed, she worked in libraries and bookshops.Brandon Taylor is an Acquiring Editor at Unnamed Press and co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. He is the author of Minor Black Figures, The Late Americans, Real Life, a finalist of the Booker Prize and the NBCC John Leonard Prize, and Filthy Animals, winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Cut, Vulture, and elsewhere.