Ellen Taylor:  is the author of one chapbook and two collections of poetry: Humming to Snails, Floating, and Compass Rose.  Her work has been published in The Café Review, New England Review, and North American Review, among others. Her work has been translated into Slovene and Spanish, and she was a featured poet at the International Poetry Festival, hosted by Gracias, Honduras, in 2020.  She teaches courses in literature, writing, and gender studies at the University of Maine at Augusta and at the Maine State Prison, and lives in Appleton, Maine.

Meghan Sterling:  her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Rust & Moth, SWIMM, The Night Heron Barks, Cider Press Review, Inflectionist Review, The West Review, UCity Review, and others.  She is Associate Poetry Editor of the Maine Review and co-editor of the anthology, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, published by Littoral Books. Her poetry collection, These Few Seeds, was published by Terrapin Books in 2021.  When she isn’t writing poetry, being a mom or running in the snow, she works as Program Director for the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

Lori Powell:  currently lives on the coast of Maine, where she teaches English to immigrants and refugees.  Her poems have appeared in the Portland Press Herald, Little Pautuxent Review, The Columbia Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Shot Glass Press, among others. Truth and Lies, a chapbook, was published by Black Buzzard Press.

Yuko Otomo:  is a visual artist and a bilingual poet / writer of Japanese origin.  She writes poetry, haiku, art criticism, travelogues and essays.  Her publications include Garden: Selected Haiku (Beehive Press), Genesis (Sisyphus Press), Small Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Hand of The Poet (UDP), Study & Other Poems on Art (UDP), Elements (Feral Press), KOAN (New Feral Press) and Frozen Heatwave, a poetry collaboration project with Steve Dalachinksy (Luna Bisonte Prods).  She lives in New York City.