Pam Burr Smith: is a prize winning poet who has published short stories, essays, articles, and poems in many journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review and Kansas Quarterly. She is the author of two poetry books Heaven Jumping Woman and Near Stars, and a poetry chapbook, She Speaks. She lives in Brunswick, Maine.

Nina Serrano: is an American poet, writer, storyteller, and independent media producer born in 1934 in New York City, growing up in Latino and other immigrant communities, who lives in Vallejo, California. She is the author of Heart Songs: The Collected Poems of Nina Serrano and Pass it on!: How to start your own senior storytelling program in the schools. She has undergone theater training, studied anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and traveled with student peace groups to Soviet Russia and revolutionary China in the 1950s.

Claire Scott: is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam, and Healing Muse among others. She is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co–author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Royal Rhodes: is a poet, essayist, and retired educator. His work has appeared in, Last Stanza, Allegro, Abandoned Mine, Ekstasis, Ekphrastic Review, The Montreal Review, and elsewhere. Collaborations of art and his poetry have been published by The Catbird [on the Yadkin] Press in North Carolina.