Michael Hemery serves as the nonfiction editor of Hunger Mountain and earned his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His book, No Permanent Scars, will be published by Silenced Press later this year. Individual essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review, Lumina, New Plains Review, Passages North, The Portland Review, Post Road Magazine, Redivider, Slice, sub-TERRAIN, The Tusculum Review, and the book Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir. He currently resides near Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife, the poet Stacie Leatherman, and son.