Richard Martin: is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry, founder of The Big Horror Poetry Series (Binghamton, New York, 1983–1996), author of Buffoons in the Gene Pool (Lavender Ink / Fell Swoop, 2016), Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) and his latest, Goosebumps of Antimatter (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). His poems have garnered an NEA Fellowship and have appeared in the anthologies Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Cafe and American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century and the magazines ACM, unarmed, Estuaries, and Skanky Possum. He is a retired Boston Public Schools principal and lives in Boston with his family.

David Lehman: (born June 11, 1948) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, literary critic, and the founder and series editor for The Best American Poetry. He was a writer and freelance journalist for fifteen years, writing for such publications as Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He is the author of five collections of poems, including The Evening Sun (Scribner, 2002) and The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry (2000). His books of criticism include The Last Avant– Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Doubleday, 1998). He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Peter Kidd: born in 1947 in Springfield, Illinois. He attended Columbia University till after his junior year, then sailed out of Brooklyn on a Yugoslavian freighter to Tanger, Morocco, where he spent the next three years of his life. He traveled America extensively, living in Boston, San Francisco, finally settling in Bedford, New Hampshire to raise his four children. He made a living as a landscape designer and gardener, working for himself. He writes fiction, reviews, plays as well as poetry. He started Igneus Press in 1990, which has published approximately 50 books of poetry and plays.

Bill Griffin: is a family doctor in a small town in North Carolina. Poetry may not have saved his patients (although some have been preserved in verse) but poetry has certainly saved him. His poems have appeared widely including Tar River Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, and NC Literary Review. His most recent collection is R1VERSTORY : TREESTORY (The Orchard Street Press 2018).