Maria Surricchio: is originally from the U.K. and now lives near Boulder, Colorado. A life–long lover of poetry, she turned to writing in 2020 after a long marketing career. Her work has been published, and is forthcoming, in the I –70 Review, Delta Poetry Review, Lily Poetry Review and The Dillydoun Review. She has a B.A. in Modern Languages from Cambridge University and is an MFA candidate at Pacific University.

Andrew Schelling: poet and translator, he lives in the mountains of Colorado’s Front Range, between Four Mile and Black Diamond creeks. Twenty–odd books include eight of poetry translated from Sanskrit. Ecology, linguistics, animal tracks; and regular excursions into arid canyons that cradle rock art, ruins, and pre–history at Bears Ears. Titles include The Facts at Dog Tank Spring (poetry), The Real People of Wind & Rain (essays), and Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture.

normal: born in paterson nj — ww2 toddler memories on passaics last farm picking raspberries /eating worms from great–granny hannah’s victory garden — somewhere btwn 7 & 800 pieces published 1992 to present — boasting no computer skills, normal remains “one of the last american primitives” in the underground press — his most rcent book i see hungers children, selected poems 1962–2012 published by lummox press in 2012.

Paul Nelson: poet/interviewer, he founded the Cascadia Poetics LAB and the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Books include Haibun de la Serna (2022), A Time Before Slaughter/Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia (2020) American Prophets (interviews 1994–2012) (2018) and American Sentences (2015, 2021). He is co–editor of Cascadian Zen Volume I: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now (2023, Watershed Press), Make it True meets Medusario (2019) (Spanish and English) and others. He is Literary Executor for the late poet Sam Hamill and lives in Rainier Beach, alongside TUX woo’ kwib Creek, in Seattle.