Belle Boggs, Robin Davidson and Jill McCorkle

Belle Boggs is director of the MFA program at NC State University, author of The Gulf and The Art of Waiting, and co-author, with her daughter Beatrice, of the free climate-focused newsletter The Frog Trouble Times. Robin Davidson is a fourth-generation Texan, and a poet, translator, and professor emerita of English and creative writing for the University of Houston Downtown. Jill McCorkle is a North Carolina native who teaches creative writing and is the author of four story collections and seven novels, most recently, Hieroglyphics.