Carl Watson: is poet, novelist, playwright and critic. He is the author of four novels: Only Descend, Idylls of Complicity, Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming and The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts. He has also written several books of poetry, including, After Thought, Stage Fright, Pareidolia and Astral Botanica. He lives in New York City and the Catskills.

Keith Walker: grew up in the Carolinas and has lived in Maine for many years. He lives in Saco where he works as a therapist in private practice. He has also worked as a studio potter and co-founded the Portland Zen Center. His poetry collection, All That Names Us, was published last year. 

Elizabet Stevens: is a former journalist. She returned to university to pursue studies in fiction, literary non-fiction and poetry, and received a masters degree in English (Creative Writing) University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. Her poetry been published in literary journals across Canada, and the literary section of the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal. Two of her poems were shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize (2013/17) and published in The Global Anthology.

Claire Scott: is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t.