Chloe Stricklin: is a Pennsylvanian poet living in Minneapolis, where she works in instructional design. She holds an M.Ed in Learning Technologies from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, New South, Arc Poetry Magazine, West Trade Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and others.

Pam Burr Smith: a prize winning poet, she has published short stories, essays, articles, and poems in many journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review and Kansas Quarterly. She is the author of two poetry books Heaven Jumping Woman and Near Stars, and a poetry chapbook She Speaks. She lives in Brunswick, Maine.

Claire Scott: is an award winning poet whose 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, and is the co–author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Kit Robinson: born in 1949, he is a Bay Area poet, writer, and musician. In the 1970s and 1980s, he performed with San Francisco Poets Theater and produced “In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets,” (with Lyn Hejinian.) He is the author of two dozen collections of poetry, including Quarantina (Lavender Ink, 2022), Thought Balloon (Roof, 2019), Leaves of Class (Chax, 2017), Marine Layer (BlazeVOX, 2015). Recent poems appear in Brooklyn Rail, Blazing Stadium, Cold Mountain Review, Exquisite Pandemic, Three Fold, and Traffic Report. His papers and media are collected at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley and plays Cuban tres guitar in the charanga band Calle Ocho.