C. Mikal Oness

C. Mikal Oness is a homesteader, poet and printer, living in rural Minnesota. He is the founding editor and director of Sutton Hoo Press, a literary fine press producing hand-made limited editions of poetry and prose. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Missouri, Oness has received the Toi Shan Fellowship from the Taoist Center in Washington, D.C. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, The Colorado Review, Third Coast, The Bloomsbury Review, Fence, Puerto del Sol, and other magazines. His work has been awarded the Mahan Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award from George Mason University, and a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant. His book of poems, Water Becomes Bone, was published by New Issues Press in 2000 and was awarded the Posner Prize in Poetry by the Council of Wisconsin Writers. He has a limited edition chapbook, Runian, from Bergamot Press, and another limited edition, Privilege, from Cut Away Books. His manuscript, Oracle Bones, was selected for the Lewis & Clark Expedition Prize and was published in 2007. His latest collection, Works and Days, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press.

  • Works and Days — Cornerstone Press (Forthcoming August 2027)

  • A Private Matter — No Reply Press 2026

  • Notes from the Hermitage — No Reply Press 2025

  • Oracle Bones — Lewis-Clark Press 2007

  • Impossible Fires — Red Dragonfly Press 2006

  • Privilege — Cut Away Books 2002

  • Water Becomes Bone — New Issues Press 2000

  • Runian — Bergamot Press 1999

Elizabeth Oness

Elizabeth Oness is a writer and musician who lives on a biodynamic farm in Minnesota.  Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, The Tahoma Literary Review, and other magazines.  Her stories have received an O. Henry Prize, a Nelson Algren Award, and the Crazyhorse (now Swamp Pink) Fiction Prize. Her books include: Articles of Faith (Iowa Short Fiction Prize 2000), Departures (Penguin), Twelve Rivers of the Body (Gival Press Novel Award), Fallibility, (New Rivers Press Many Voices Award) and Leaving Milan (Brighthorse Books Novel Award).  Her latest collection of stories, The Hopefuls, was published by Cornerstone Press in May 2025 and was selected as the 2026 winner of the National Indie Excellence Award in short stories.

  • The Hopefuls — Cornerstone Press 2025

  • Leaving Milan — Brighthorse Books 2015

  • Fallibility — New Rivers Press 2009

  • Fallibility — Sutton Hoo Press 2003

  • Twelve Rivers of the Body — Gival Press 2008

  • Departures — Penguin 2004

  • Articles of Faith — University of Iowa Press 2000

  • Sure Knowledge — Parallel Press 1999