JOHN FREEMAN

founder of Freeman's, the literary annual, and the author and editor of ten books including the essay Dictionary of the Undoing, the poetry collection Wind, Trees, and the anthology, Tales of Two Planets. He lives in New York City where he is executive editor of Alfred A. Knopf and is host for Alta magazine's online California Book Club, which gathers once a month on zoom to discuss a new classic of Golden State literature. 

KERRI ARSENAULT

literary critic, co-director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University; Associate at Harvard’s Mahindra Center; contributing editor at Orion magazine; and author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Her writing has been published in Freeman’s, the Boston Globe, The Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. 

A. KENDRA GREENE

author, illustrator, and audiobook reader of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. Her work has been exhibited at The Reading Room and supported by 100 West-Corsicana Residency, Yaddo, MacDowell, Harvard's Library Innovation Lab, and the Ralph A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship at the Dobie Paisano ranch. A Dallas Museum of Art writer in residence and Nasher Sculpture center guest artist, her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Atlas Obscura, and D Magazine. Squirreled away in the libraries of UNC as their visiting writer, she's writing a bestiary and a poison cabinet as we speak.

DAVID SEARCY

is the author of Ordinary Horror, Last Things, Shame and Wonder, and The Tiny Bee that Hovers at the Center of the World.  His work has appeared in the Paris Review, Esquire, Freeman's, Harper's, Granta and elsewhere.  He lives in Dallas and Corsicana, Texas.