Reed Turchi is a musician, poet, and producer from Swannanoa, North Carolina, now living in Brooklyn.

His new album Road Ends in Water will be released on Gitcha Records 10.9.26

Dancing With Poets, selected by Victoria Chang for the 2026 Colorado Prize for Poetry, will be published 11.15.2026.

Turchi has won a GRAMMY Award and received an EMMY Nomination, and has been featured in Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, No Depression, The Oxford American, Living Blues, and many more.

His poetry has been published in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, among others. He earned his MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was awarded the Ellen Bryant Voigt Scholarship.

Turchi is the co-editor of The Swannanoa Review.

James Tristan Redding is a British-American songwriter, author, narrator, and multi-instrumentalist. James has written over a thousand songs, released 12 studio albums, served as a session musician on drums, bass, guitar, and keys for groups in the USA and Europe, and had his songs recorded by Sarah Harralson, Dan Whitehouse, Eli Alger, David Easterling, and Emma Gale, among others.

Redding has written or shared the stage with Rodney Crowell, Chris Gantry, Victor DeLorenzo of Violent Femmes, Jim Lauderdale, Jelly Roll, John Lomax III, Susan Cowsill & The Cowsills, James Hall & Pleasure Club, John Sieger, Peter Mulvey, Bartley Pursley, Mark Narmore, Rob Stanley, Steve Dean, Elliott Park, Kent Blazy, Cadillac Bob Homles, Janis & Rick Carnes, Tom Ghent, Milton Blackford, Davis Raines, Pete & Pat Luboff, Hannah Fairlight, Thayer Sarrano, Cary Hudson & Blue Mountain, Mosquitos, Drums & Tuba, Mike Hoffmann of EIEIO & Carnival Strippers, The Why Store, Buddahead, Ophira Eisenberg, Subhah Agarwal, Kevin Avery, W. Kamau Bell, and Hari Kondabolu, among others.