Kate Burgau
Kate Burgau: was raised as a military child and has lived in many locations in the U.S. Her earliest years were spent in a remote area of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and that kindled a love for nature and exploring outdoors. She received a BFA in Design with an Illustration emphasis from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 2002. The greatest inspiration for her work comes from the natural world and she wishes to celebrate the smallest details in nature and how they connect to each other and to us. She has lived in Maine since 2018 where she continues to work primarily in ink and paint. https://www.kateburgau.com/
Bengt O Björklund
Bengt O Björklund: poet, artist, journalist, photographer, writer, musician, and editor was born in Stockholm in 1949. In 1968 he landed in jail in Istanbul for $20 worth of hash and met a bunch of international artists, poets, and musicians. It was then he embarked on his artistic voyage. In 2018, he was awarded Sweden Beat Poet Laureate by the National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc. His artistic journey started in Istanbul with colored pencils and watercolours. He has five collections of poetry in English and six in Swedish.
Craig Sipe
Craig Sipe: is the author of the poetry collection Lovely Dregs. His recent work has appeared in journals including Iconoclast, Spank the Carp, Last Leaves, and Hole in the Head Review. He is a poetry editor, and audio editor for the quarterly art and poetry journal The Café Review. On Wednesdays, he is the “chef” at the soup kitchen in Brunswick, Maine.
Jefferson Navicky
Jefferson Navicky: is the author of four books, most recently the novel–in–prose–poems, Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands (2023), as well as Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose (2021), which won the 2022 Maine Literary Book Award for Poetry. He is the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection.