Elizabeth Ogle: holds a BFA in illustration and a minor in creative writing from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is online at eaogle.com and on instagram@e.a.ogle.

Kevin Neal: is an avid beer drinker and poet. His poetry is featured in CutBank, West Trade Review, and a couple other poetry journals. Currently, he practices mechanical engineering of buildings and enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and two daughters.

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, The Deadly Writers Patrol, The New Anthology of American Poetry: Postmodernisms, (Rutgers University Press), and American War Poetry (Oxford). He is the recipient of awards from the NAACP Spring Valley Chapter (Humanitarian Award), The National Writers Union, and the NYS Council on the Arts. He lives in Nyack with his wife Michele.

Clive Matson: MFA Columbia University, was mentored by the Beats in 1960s’ East Village of New York and Herbert Huncke became his second father. He fell into the passionate intensity that streams through us all and makes no, zero, effort to extract himself. He describes the power of the creative unconscious in Let The Crazy Child Write! An excerpt of Hello, Paradise. Paradise, Goodbye, premiered in 2017 in Paris, treats unrest and threats of extinction through the lens of future grief. Visit him at matsonpoet.com.