Bill Nevins:  grew up in New York City in the 1950s and 60s. He moved to northern New England and raised his three children, one of whom, Special Forces SFC Liam Nevins, died in combat in Afghanistan in 2013.  He has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1996.  His poetry has been published in Malpaís Review, Green Left Weekly, The Rag, Central Avenue, Sage Trail, Adobe Walls, Más Tequila Review, Special Forces Charitable Trust online, Maple Leaf Rag II, The Cornelian, KUMISS, and others.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg:  earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Kansas.  She is the 2009 –2013 Kansas Poet Laureate and author of 24 books, including How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems; Mirriam’s Well, a novel; Needle in the Bone, a non-fiction book on the Holocaust; The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body.  She is the founder of Transformative Language Arts, leads writing workshops widely, coaches people on writing and right livelihood, and consults on creativity.

R. S. Mengert: completed his MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in Gargoyle, Maintenant, Zymbol, Poetry is Dead, ABZ, Fjords, San Pedro River Review, Four Chambers, Snail Mail Review, Enizagam, and The Café Review.

Gerald McCarthy:  his books of poetry are War Story, (1977) Shoetown, (1992), Trouble Light, (2008), and Door in the Wall, (2020).  His writing appears in numerous magazines and anthologies including, New Letters, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, America, Nimrod, The North Dakota Review, The Café Review, and American War Poetry.  He is the recipient of awards from the NAACP Spring Valley Chapter, The National Writers Union, and the NYS Council on the Arts.  He lives in Nyack, New York with his wife Michele.