Megan Grumbling

has had poems published in many journals and was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She teaches at Southern Maine Community College, is theater critic for the Portland Phoenix, and curates literary happenings at Mayo Street Arts, a former Danish Lutheran church in Portland, Maine. She is the book reviews editor for The Café Review.
Ted Bookey

originally hails from New York, where he taught English in public schools and at Long Island University. For the past nine years, he has conducted poetry workshops at the Senior College program at the University of Maine in Augusta. He is the author of Mixty Motions, Language as a Second Language, Lostalgia, and With a W/Hole in One.
Huck Notari

Huck Notari grew up in New Hampshire in an old country house. He eventually found himself on the West Coast, where he helped form a vaudeville troupe, the Cardboard Songsters. Notari then landed in New Orleans, where he mimed on the streets as Charlie Chaplin and joined the Kitchen Syncopators, a ragtime and country blues band. He has released two solo albums, “Highland” (2007) and “Very Long Dream” (2009). He resides in Portland, Oregon.
Fred Field

Fred Field is an award – winning photojournalist based in Portland, Maine. His coffee table book, Maine Places, Maine Faces (Commonwealth Editions, 2008), is a pictorial celebration of the beauty of Maine. Field freelances for several newspapers including The Boston Globe and The New York Times. He is working on an ongoing national ad campaign appearing in TIME magazine. Field is the recipient of Harvard Magazine’s 2008 photography award. Please see his work at fredfield.com.