after an early career in theater and a stint in academia studying comparative literature and teaching literature and German, she now lives in Queens, NY and writes poetry when not working as a legal secretary.

was raised in post – WWII Passaic, NJ and educated at the city library and Times Square, later reading his poems at the Café Rafio in Greenwich Village.  He has been an RN for the past 35 years.  He cites the Beats, Henry Miller, Vallejo, Cummings, and Vonnegut as influences.

his work has appeared in Hobart, Birkensnake, Helen, Octopus Magazine and Smokelong Quarterly.  He teaches English at Southern Maine Community College, and lives in Freeport, Maine with his wife, Sarah.  He has spent the winter reading Elena Ferrante and Stephen Petroff.

is professor of English at Fairmont State University in West Virginia and editor of Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art.  Her publications include the anthologies, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III; Beloved on the Earth; and Poets’ Guide to the Birds.