Michael Colbert: is a queer writer, film critic, and Mainer at heart. He earned an MFA from UNCW. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Catapult, and The Bitter Southerner.

Amy Barone: her new poetry collection, Defying Extinction, from Broadstone Books, was released in 2022. New York Quarterly Books published her book, We Became Summer, in 2018. She is the author of poetry chapbooks, Kamikaze Dance, and Views from the Driveway.

Jan Garden Castro: books include The Last Frontier (poetry, Eclectic Press), The Art & Life of Georgia O’Keeffe, and Sonia Delaunay: La Moderne. Her Fourteen Accidental Sonnets, The Last Frontier and Allen Ginsberg papers are in the Berg Collection, NYPL.

Georgia M. Brodsky: is a recent graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives south of Boston, near the ocean, with her partner and their daughter.