Katherine Webb-Hehn is a writer, journalist, and editor. For many years, she covered justice in the South with Scalawag Magazine where her reporting was praised, published, or funded by the New York Times, the Nation, PEN America, the Atlantic, Longreads, The Marguerite Casey Foundation, and occasionally even her own family. As an editor with Hub City Press, Katherine works with writers from acquisition through development to publication. At home in Birmingham, Alabama, she's the mother of two young children.Meg Reid is the Executive Director of Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she finds and champions new and overlooked voices from the American South, including Carter Sickels, Drew Lanham, Ashley M. Jones, and Anjali Enjeti. An editor and book designer, her essays have appeared online in outlets like DIAGRAM, Oxford American, and The Rumpus. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as Assistant Editor of the literary magazine Ecotone and worked for the literary imprint Lookout Books. She was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch 2021 Honoree. She loves literary nonfiction and braided essays. She lives in Spartanburg, SC

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• Introduction by Meg ReidCarter Sickels, ForageDesiree Evans, Cora LeeRon Rash, French IJohn Lane, The Old Man and the PoolKelsey Ronan, The Chairs in Your ParlorJames Yeh, Two Short StoriesAshleigh Bryant Phillips, How it WorksA Comic by Julie JaremaKate A. McMullen, FleasHalle Hill, HungryReyes Ramirez, Religious Group Formed Around Hurricanes Protest Infrastructure ImprovementsGeorge Singleton, Show-and-TellChristine McSwain, Imagine Explosions HereAndrew Seigrist, Nothing for the JourneyMichel Stone, The PickersScott Gloden, TennesseeEmily Pease, Church Retreat, 1975Gray Wolfe Lajoie, Aisle SixThomas Pierce, The Immortal Milkshake