Sophia Kidd: is a poet, scholar, and publisher of Igneus Press, based in Bellingham, Washington. Her poetry has appeared in ART/LIFE Limited Monthly Edition, brie zine, the cryer, Chinquapin Literary Magazine, China in Zero, Mala Bookworm Literary Journal, and Taotie (HH). She is also a performance artist, having performed widely in the U.S. and China.

Robert Kelly: born in 1935, is an American poet associated with the deep image group. He is the 2016–2017 Poet Laureate of Dutchess County, New York and has worked as a translator and teacher, most notably at Bard College. He has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960 –1993, (1995), A Transparent Tree (1985), and May Day (Parsifal Press, 2007). He is married to the translator Charlotte Mandell.

Robert Hogg: is a retired English professor and organic farmer who devotes his life to writing on his farm in Eastern Ontario, Canada. He has published five books of poetry and four chapbooks. His work has appeared in over seventy periodicals, most recently Pamenar Online, Empty Mirror, The Cafe Review, Dispatches, Arc, Some Magazine, The Typescript, and others.

Carol Hamilton: is retired from teaching 2nd grade through graduate school classes from Connecticut to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. She is a former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma and has published 17 books: children’s novels, legends, and poetry and has been nominated nine times for a Pushcart Prize.