Rachel Weaver is the author of the recent memoir Dizzy (2026), called “an arresting new memoir” by Maureen Corrigan on NPR’s Fresh Air, and the novel The Last Run, published in June to rave reviews. Her previous novel, Point of Direction, was named a Top Ten Book to Pick Up Now by Oprah Magazine, and won the 2015 Willa Cather Award for Fiction. She is on the faculty at Wilkes University’s low-residency MFA program in addition to teaching Lighthouse, where she won the Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence in 2018. Rachel’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Sun, Gettysburg Review, Blue Mesa Review, River Teeth, Southeast Review, CutBank, Linden Review, and Gulf Coast among others. Rachel earned a Certificate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, and currently runs Lighthouse’s Body of Words program for writers with disabilities and chronic illness.
Judy Sandler is a writer and educator living in mid-coast Maine. She holds an MLA from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from Stonecoast, at the University of Southern Maine. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times’s “Tiny Love Stories,” The Atticus Review, The Perch, Pangyrus, and the Treatment Advocacy Center blog. Sandler previously taught in Baltimore area independent schools for over twenty-eight years. She is now the creative nonfiction editor for both The Stonecoast Review and The Awakenings Review. Sandler and her husband are the parents of three adult children, Alex, Lucy, and Noah.
