Angela Ball’s most recent book of poetry is Talking Pillow (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her biweekly column, “The New-York School Diaspora,” is featured in The Best American Poetry blog. She teaches in the Center for Writers, part of the School of Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where she lives with her two dogs, Miss Bishop and Boy.  

Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry on unceded Mingo land (Akron, OH). Recent/upcoming appearances in Wishbone Words, SurVision, and Down in the Dirt, among others.

Cat Dixon is the author of What Happens in Nebraska (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2022) along with six other poetry chapbooks and collections. She is a poetry editor with The Good Life Review. Recent poems published in The Book of Matches, North of Oxford, hex, and The Southern Quill.

Deborah H. Doolittle, having lived in lots of different places, now calls North Carolina home.  A Pushcart Prize nominee, she is the author of Floribunda and three chapbooks, No Crazy Notions, That Echo, and Bogbound.  Some of her poems have recently appeared (or will soon appear) in Cloudbank, Comstock Review, Kakalak, Iconoclast, Ravensperch, Slant, The Stand, and in audio format on The Writer’s Almanac.  She shares a home with her husband, four housecats, and a backyard full of birds.

Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut, has published 13 books of poems, most recently The Glass Globe, the third book in a trilogy that includes Broken Cup and Not Hearing the Wood Thrush. A new book, Draw Me Without Boundaries, will arrive in the Fall, 2024. AWARDS: The Lamont Selection, Melville Kane Award, Connecticut Book Award. She was a Finalist for the National Book Award, 1993, and for the Poets’ Prize, 2016. With a grant from the Academy of American Poets, she edited an anthology, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis. Visit her website at <www.MargaretGibsonPoetry.com>

James Harms is the author of nine books of poetry including, most recently, Rowing with Wings (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Newer work appears or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Salt, Catamaran, and other journals. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN and the MacDowel Colony, among other distinctions, as well as three Pushcart Prizes.

Lisa S. Horowitz is an attorney and translator living and working in New York City. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies from Brown University, and a law degree from Columbia University. She has translated and published, along with Tino Villanueva, a bilingual book of poetry, Primera causa/First Cause, as well as several other poems by Mr. Villanueva. Her translations have appeared in a variety of poetry collections and journals.

Susan Kaplan is the creator of the independent comic, Puncentration Camp, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Donald Mangum is retired from teaching English and philosophy. He has published a novella, The Roar Beneath (Main Street Rag, 2016), and a number of short stories and poems in The New Yorker, Confrontation, The Mississippi Review, and elsewhere.

Vanessa Ogle is a poet, writer, and educator. Her poems have recently appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2020. 

Ken Poyner’s eleventh book, Winter’s Last Apple, is just out.  Eight of his previous ten books are still in print.  He lives in Virginia with his wife of 45+ years, assorted rescue cats and various betta fish. Café Irreal, Analog, Grey Sparrow, Mad Swirl, elsewhere.

Richard Schiffman is an environmental reporter, poet and author of two biographies based in New York City. His poems have appeared on the BBC and on NPR as well as in the Alaska Quarterly, the New Ohio Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, Writer’s Almanac, This American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily and other publications. His first poetry collection What the Dust Doesn’t Know was published in 2017 by Salmon Poetry.

Jennifer Schneider is an educator who lives, works, and writes in small spaces throughout Pennsylvania. Her most recent collection, 14 (Plus) Reasons Why, published by Free Lines Press, is now available. 

Beate Sigriddaughter, www.sigriddaughter.net, grew up in Nürnberg, Germany. Her playgrounds were a nearby castle and World War II bomb ruins. She lives in Silver City, New Mexico (Land of Enchantment), where she was poet laureate from 2017 to 2019. Her occasionally prize-winning work is widely published in literary magazines. Recent book publications include a poetry collection, Wild Flowers, and a short story collection, Dona Nobis Pacem. In her blog Writing in a Woman’s Voice, she publishes other women’s voices.

Daniel Sklar teaches Creative Writing at Endicott College, and has been published in the Harvard Review, English Journal, Beat Scene, and the New York Quarterly among other journals. His books include Flying Cats, Hack Writer, and Bicycles, Canoes, Drums. His play, “Lycanthropy” was performed at the Boston Theater Marathon in 2012 and was reviewed in The Boston Globe. He rides a bicycle to work.

Nancy Spiller is the author of Entertaining Disasters (a novel), and the memoir Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned from My Mother’s Recipe Box (both from Counterpoint Press). A fourth generation Californian born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is also an instructor at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program as well as an exhibiting visual artist. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and her dog.  

Tino Villanueva is the author of seven books of poetry, including Shaking Off the Dark (1984), and Chronicle of My Worst Years (1994). His Scene from the Movie GIANT, now in its fourth printing, won a 1994 American Book Award. Primera causa / First Cause, a bilingual chapbook of ten poems on memory and writing, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 1999. His work has been translated into French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. His art work has appeared on the covers and pages of national and international journals, such as Green Mountains Review, Nexos, TriQuarterly, and Parnassus.

Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines including Amsterdam Quarterly, Mud Season Review, The Pettigru Review, Still: The Journal, The Coachella Review, and in Mike’s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic, (Rabbit House Press, 2020), political poetry for a post-truth world. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, and can be found at mikewilsonwriter.com

Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He is the author of more than sixty books, the most recent of which are with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish, published by Sandy Press in May, 2023, & a free downloadable chapbook of visuals & poems, Mercator Projected, published by Half Day Moon Press in August 2023.