George Searles: teaches English and Latin at Mohawk Valley Community College and has also taught creative writing for Pratt and graduate courses for The New School. He has published 100+ poems, along with three volumes of literary criticism and a widely–used Pearson textbook. A former Carnegie Foundation “Professor of the Year,” he is the editor of Glimpse, a poetry biannual.

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, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. She is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t, and is the co–author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Lucas Pingel: has published three previous chapbooks; most recently, Yes, I’m Sure This Was a Beautiful Place. Some of his book reviews have been featured in Heavy Feather Review and Cant. He lives in the Twin Cities, where he is an assistant professor at St. Catherine University and curates the Talking Image Connection reading series.

Tom Pickard: is a poet and documentary film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival.