is a schoolteacher.  He divides his time between the nine-year-old children and the dogs, cats, woman, and parrots with whom he shares a house.  He lives in Minnesota.

is a former college professor and poet living in Burlington, Vermont.  His work has appeared in the anthology Onion River: Six Vermont Poets and in numerous journals, including Black River Review, Dominion Review, Ibis Review, and previously in The Café Review.

is the current Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine.  She is the author of four poetry collections, including When We Invented Water (Moon Pie Press, 2014), and editor of the anthology, Port City Poems: Contemporary Poets Celebrate Portland, Maine (Maine Poetry Central, 2013), and a finalist for the 2014 Maine Literary Awards.

has published five books, including two poetry collections, The Occasions of Paradise (U. Tampa Press, 2012) and The Green Girls (Pleiades Press, 2003).  He has also published poems in various journals, including Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and New Letters.