Twyla M. Hansen: her book Feeding the Fire won a 2023 Nebraska Book Award and WILLA Literary Award. She was Nebraska State Poet 2013 – 2018. Her writing’s appear in Briar Cliff Review, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, More in Time: Tribute to Ted Kooser, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Foundation, and more.

Alisha Goldblatt: is an English teacher living in Portland, Maine with her two sweet children and lovely husband. In 2015, she published a children’s book, Finding a Way, about her family’s experience raising a child with a rare chromosomal abnormality. Her poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, the Common Ground Review, Literary Mama, The Briar Cliff Review, Burningword Literary Journal, and others.

Kevin Gallagher: is a poet, editor, and political economist living in Greater Boston. His recent books are Loom (Madhat, 2016), Radio Plays (Dos Madres, 2019), The Wild Goose (Loom, 2022), and And Yet it Moves (Madhat, 2023). He edits spoKe, a Boston based annual of poetry and poetics. He works as a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Pardee School for Global Studies.

Jacob Friesenhahn: teaches religious studies and philosophy at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.