Larry Goodell: was born in 1935 in Roswell, New Mexico, where crossing cattle trails meet the Pecos River. He is married to Lenore Goodell, photographer and phenologist, and has lived in Placitas since 1963. Between Ann and Larry (letters of Ann Quin) and Dance Book (collaborative dance poems) should be out from Duende Press this Spring.

James Finnegan: was the second–prize winner in the 2022 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition. A sonnet, ‘The Weather–Beaten Scarecrow’, was published in The Irish Times in August, 2021. He taught in St. Eunan’s College for thirty–three years and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Living Educational Theory from the University of Bath. He has had poems published with The Rainbow Poetry News (2008), North West Words (2015), Poets Meet Politics (2015). In August 2012, he self–published a poetry book, The Expressive Mode, with CreateSpace, owned by Amazon.

Thomas Feeny: teaches Foreign Language at North Carolina State University. Besides poetry, his interests are classical jazz, raising tomatoes, and the Red Sox.

James Brasfield: was born in Savannah, Georgia. He received a B.A. from Armstrong State University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. He is the author of Cove (Louisiana State University Press, 2023); Infinite Altars (Louisiana State University Press, 2016); and Ledger of Crossroads (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). He also translated The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha (Harvard University Press, 1999). He has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Penn State University and lives in State College, Pennsylvania.