Claire Scott: is an award winning poet whose 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, and is the co–author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Kit Robinson: born in 1949, he is a Bay Area poet, writer, and musician. In the 1970s and 1980s, he performed with San Francisco Poets Theater and produced “In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets,” (with Lyn Hejinian.) He is the author of two dozen collections of poetry, including Quarantina (Lavender Ink, 2022), Thought Balloon (Roof, 2019), Leaves of Class (Chax, 2017), Marine Layer (BlazeVOX, 2015). Recent poems appear in Brooklyn Rail, Blazing Stadium, Cold Mountain Review, Exquisite Pandemic, Three Fold, and Traffic Report. His papers and media are collected at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley and plays Cuban tres guitar in the charanga band Calle Ocho.

John Ripton: grew up in Central Maine. His poems have appeared in literary journals in the U.S., Germany, Japan, and Australia, including The Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Long Shot, International Haiku Magazine, Paper Wasp and Chrysanthemum. He regularly writes political essays for newspapers and magazines and articles for professional journals.

Bruce Pratt: is the author of the novel The Serpents of Blissfull, Boreal: Poems, The Trash Detail: Stories, and poetry chapbook, Forms and Shades. His writings have appeared in several dozen magazines, reviews, and journals in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Wales. He edits American Fiction.