Joe Torra: has been writing, editing, and promoting the work of other writers for over 25 years. He is a poet, novelist, memoirist, and editor. His books include My Ground Trilogy, After the Chinese, Time Being, What It Takes, and most recently, Who Do You Think You Are?: Reflections of a Writer’s Life, from PFP Publishers, among others. He edited lift magazine in the 1990s, and later Let the Bucket Down, A Magazine of Boston Area Writing. He lives in Somerset, Massachusetts.

Gordon Taylor: (he/him) is a queer poet and cancer survivor, who walks an ever–swaying wire of technology, health care, and poetry. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems have appeared in Tickle Ace, Prairie Fire, Grain, Plainsongs, Plenitude, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Five South.

Roxie Powell: was born in western Kansas during the Dust Bowl. He grew up in the high Sangre de Christo mountains of southern Colorado, where he rode in his first rodeo at LaVeta, Colorado. He earned a M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. While he’s had different loves throughout his life, the constant one has been writing, and he recalls his interactions with literary giants such as Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and other leading figures of the counterculture movement. His memoir is titled, Tumbleweed of Contradictions. After being a widower for fourteen years, he found the ultimate love of his life, Ann.