Paul Matthews: worked for many years as lecturer, gymnast, and community poet at Emerson College in Forest Row, East Sussex, UK. In his student days at Sussex University he edited the poetry magazine, Eleventh Finger with Paul Evans and made contact with the lively poetry scene of the time, including the American poet Robert Duncan who particularly inspired him.

Tony Lopez: is an English poet best known for his book False Memory, first published in the USA in 1996. He grew up in Brixton, South London and worked as a pulp fiction writer in the 1970s and later taught for many years at Plymouth University where he was appointed the first Professor of Poetry. Only More So is available from Shearsman.

Judy Kaber: is a retired elementary school teacher and the author of three chapbooks: Renaming the Seasons, In Sleep We Are All the Same, and A Pandemic Alphabet. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such publications as Atlanta Review, december, Hunger Mountain, and Spillway. She lives in Maine.

Pierre Joris: raised in Luxembourg, has moved between Europe, the United States, and North Africa for over half a century, publishing more than seventy books of poetry, essays, translations, and anthologies. Just published: Fox–trails, Black Fountain Press.