Chris Duncan is the fiction editor and founder of RRR. He lives with his wife, Stephanie and two daughters, Hannah and Emma, in Abingdon, Virginia. He is a graduate of Queens University of Charlotte’s MFA creative writing program. He has published fiction in thirty some odd journals, including Stirring: A Literary Collection, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Best of Carve Magazine, Ink Pot Literary Journal, and Lichen Arts and Letters Preview. He’s working on a novel titled Woodburn. Check out his website & blog at www.chrisduncanhq.com.
Scott C. Holstad is the poetry editor and holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, California State University, Long Beach, and Queens University of Charlotte. He founded Big Head Press, where he edited and published poetry broadsides and chapbooks from 1991 to 1995. Among the poets he featured were Antler, Arthur Winfield Knight, Lyn Lifshin, and Belinda Subraman. He has authored 15 volumes of poetry, one of which – 1995’s Places (Sterling House) – was nominated for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines worldwide, including The Minnesota Review, Wisconsin Review, Hawaii Review, Chiron Review, Pearl, Atom Mind, Long Shot, Exquisite Corpse, Caffeine, Pacific Review, Palo Alto Review, Santa Clara Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Arkansas Review, Awakenings Review, Lullwater Review, Asheville Poetry Review and Southern Review. Further, his writings have been featured in textbooks and anthologies published by Longman and Harper Collins, among others, as well as the influential anthology series, In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself (MW Enterprises), and the annual Poet’s Market (Writer’s Digest Books). Notable writers who have provided his books’ back cover plugs include Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Robert Polito, Marilyn Kallet, Michael Bugeja and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.