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.

Dion O’Reilly: his debut collection, Ghost Dogs, was shortlisted for The Catamaran Prize and The Eric Hoffer Award. Her second book Sadness of the Apex Predator will be published by University of Wisconsin’s Cornerstone Press in 2024. Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She hosts a podcast at The Hive Poetry Collective. Most recently, her poem “The Value of Tears” was chosen as winner of the Glitter Bomb Award.

Gerry Murphy: was born in Cork, Ireland in 1952. Publications include, End Of Part One: New & Selected Poems, Dedalus Press 2006; Muse, Dedalus Press 2015; and The Humours of Nothingness, Dedalus Press 2020. A member of Aosdána.

Dan Murphy: a former carpenter, he teaches at Boston University. He served as Writer–in–Residence at Phillips Academy from 2019 —2020. His poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, The Summerset Review, The Adirondack Review, Slipstream, TAB Journal, Terrain.org, The Indianapolis Review, The Dodge, and elsewhere. His debut collection, Estate Sale, was named a finalist for the 2022 Barry Spacks Prize at Gunpowder Press.