Craig Brandis:  lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon.  His poems and reviews have been published in Oxford Magazine, Palette Poetry, Parhelion, Trampoline, American Journal of Poetry, Poetry Quarterly, Plume and elsewhere.  He is a 2021 Sewanee Writers Conference Participant and a 2019 Bread loaf Writers Conference Participant.

Gustavo A. Bécquer: poet and narrator.  He belonged to the Romantic movement, although he wrote in a period dominated by Realism.  Knowledge of his work is essential to an understanding of Spanish literature.  He adapted plays, mainly from French. During a stay in Seville, he published his first legend, The Leader with Red Hands.  He is best known for his poetry collection Rimas (1871) and short story collection Leyendas (1857–1864).  He died in Madrid in 1870 and is considered one of the most important Spanish lyric poets of the nineteenth century.

Emily H. Axelrod: lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems are concerned with family, moments embedded in memory, the natural world, and with the struggles of everyday life; they draw upon a childhood in San Francisco, and an abiding love for both California and the coast of Maine.

Michael Anania: is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer born in Omaha, Nebraska.  His published work includes numerous collections of poetry, among them, Selected Poems (l994), In Natural Light (1999) and Heat Lines (2006).  His poetry is widely anthologized and has been translated into Italian, German, French, Spanish, and Czech.  Seeking to work with the archives of of poet William Carlos Williams, he pursued graduate work in the 1960s at SUNY Buffalo.  He was one of the founding members of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His papers from the 1950s through 2006 are archived at the University of Chicago Library.