DAVID BRADLEY is the author of the novels South Street (1975) and The Chaneysville Incident (1981) which was awarded the 1982 PEN/Faulkner Award. Since 1985 he has worked primarily in Creative Nonfiction for which he received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 1991. Bradley holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in United States Studies from the University of London. JOSH COHEN is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of four books most recently The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark as well as numerous essays and articles on modern literature philosophy and psychoanalysis. GARRY COOPER a psychotherapist and writer in Oak Park IL uses both those passions to discover deepen and enhance dialog. ''Hope at the Edge'' originally published in the Winter 2014 online journal Triquarterly is part of a memoir The Little Guidebook of Love and Death. Other parts of the memoir have been published in Bloodroot Perigree Rockhurst Review and Psychotherapy Networker. A co-founder of The Weeklings JENNIFER KABAT writes frequently for Frieze and The Believer is devoutly attached to the essay form and is working on a book on art war and the landscape called Growing Up Modern. Recently she was awarded a Creative Capital / Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism. She has an MA in creative writing from UEA teaches at NYU and lives in rural upstate New York. KATE MCLOUGHLIN is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. A former government lawyer she is the author of Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text (2007). She is an Associate of the Royal College of Music in piano performance and a published poet: Plums came out in 2011. JOHANNA MOHRING is interested in geopolitical questions especially in the future of Europe. Born in Germany and living in France she is Senior Fellow at The Institute for Statecraft in London where she develops a programme on the nature of power in the 21st century. Ms Mohring read public administration and public policy at the University of Constance Germany. She holds an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins USA.