Ron Silliman: attended San Francisco State University, Merritt College, and the University of California at Berkeley. By 1971, he had become part of a group of Bay Area poets that later became known as the founders of Language Poetry. He has had work in Poetry and the Paris Review during the Biden regime.

Ciara Shuttleworth: received an M.F.A. in poetry from University of Idaho and art degrees from San Francisco Art Institute and Gustavus Adolphus College. She is a former Kerouac House of Orlando writer–in–residence and is the author of the chapbook, Night Holds Its Own, from Blue Horse Press, and a gonzo prose book, 4,500 Miles: Taking Jack Back On the Road, from Humanitas Media.

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. She is the co–author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Jeremy Reed: his recent collections of poetry include Piccadilly Bongo, Sooner or Later Frank, Voodoo Excess, Candy 4 Cannibals, Psychedelic Meadow, I Never Said I was Nice, and Dungeness Blues. Amongst his recent books of non–fiction are The Dilly: A Secret History of Piccadilly Rent Boys, Lou Reed Waiting For The Man, Altered Balance, and his recently published London memoir Bandit Poet.