Bruce Willard: Bruce Willard’s poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner as well as on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Foundation’s American Life In Poetry, curated by Kwame Dawes, and The Slowdown curated by Major Jackson. He has published 3 collections of poems: Holding Ground (2013), Violent Blues (2016) and In Light of Stars (2021)—all 3 published by Four Way Books (NYC). His 4th, As Land Between Water, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in Spring 2027. In addition to his work as a poet, Willard directs the Blue Raven Poetry Series in Rockland, Maine. He lives in Maine. More information can be found on his website, https://www.brucewillard.com/.

Molly Smith: is currently a graduate student at Middle Tennessee State University for English. She received her BA in English and Creative and Imaginative Writing at Cumberland University. She has previous publications in Cathexis Northwest Press, Wild Roof Journal, Inscape Journal, Radix Magazine, and Novus Literary Arts Journal.

Eric Roy: is the author of a chapbook: All Small Planes (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2021) whose hybrid writing received Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominations. His recent work can be found or forthcoming at Apple Valley Review, Bennington Review, Fence, the Iowa Review, Ploughshares and elsewhere.

Laura Sobbott Ross: has worked as a teacher and writing coach for Lake County Schools in Central Florida and was named Lake County’s poet laureate. Her poems have appeared in Meridian, 32 Poems, Blackbird, Main Street Rag, National Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of six poetry books.