Margaret Young: her poetry collections are Willow From the Willow (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2002), Almond Town (Bright Hill Press 2011), and Blight Summer (Finishing Line Press 2017, nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award). Two books of translations from Spanish, Sergio Inestrosa’s Espacio Improbable de un Haikú and Luna que no cesa have been published by Obsidiana Press. She is on the faculty of The Global Center for Advanced Studies and lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Harold Van Lonkhuyzen: from Portland, Maine. He is a poet and psychiatrist, living in Rockport, Maine. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Christian Century and Spiritus.

Paul Vangelisti: is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, as well as a noted translator from Italian. In 2020 the collection Motive and Opportunity was published by Shearsman in the U.K., while in 2021 Liquid Prisoner appeared from Lithic Press in Colorado. Most recently his collaboration with artist William Xerra, Fragment Science, was published by Edizioni il verri in Milan. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s posthumous collected poems, S O S: Poems, 1961 —2014, for Grove Press. He lives in Pasadena, California.

James H. Schneider: has published poems in online and print journals, including Verse Wisconsin, Abraxas #49, Third Wednesday, Amsterdam Quarterly, Mobius Magazine, and The Café Review. A poem of his was read on Maine Public Radio’s “Poems from Here” series. He is a retired lawyer and lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife.