Claude Pélieu
Claude Pélieu: was born in 1934 in Beauchamp, Val D’Oise, France. In 1962, in Paris, Claude met Mary, and they soon departed for San Francisco. In San Francisco the two quickly found themselves in the midst of the flourishing West Coast art scene, and struck up lifetime friendships and creative associations with Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, and Charles Plymell. In 1965, they left for New York City where they lived and worked for several years. They became friends and worked with such writers and artists as William Burroughs, Ed Sanders, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Harry Smith. Claude and Mary wed in 1975, and settled in upstate New York. He passed away in 2003 and Mary in 2006.
Mary Beach
Craig Becker: is a photo–based artist whose varied creative experiences — professional photographer, digital fine art printmaker and collagist — are each marked by the exploration of the visually evocative. His award–winning work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries across the U.S. Portfolios of his work have been featured in Musee’ Magazine, F–Stop Magazine, Lenscratch, and was one in Feature Shoot’s Emerging Photographers for 2017.
Joe Torra
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
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.