Pamela Twining: her work has appeared in Big Scream, Big Hammer, PoetryBay, The Café Review, Napalm Health Spa, and Heyday!, among others. With Andy Clausen, she is co–curator of “The Invisible Empires of Beatitude” page at The Museum of American Poetics (www.poetspath.com) and for several years, she co–produced the Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival in Woodstock, NY, where she and Clausen reside. She is author of four chapbooks, i have been a river . . . (2011), utopians & madmen (2012), A Thousand Years of Wanting; the Erotic Poetry of Pamela Twining (2013) and Renegade Boots (2019).

Ian Stephen:  was born on Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides where he still lives. His first book of poems was Malin Hebrides Minches (Dangaroo Press, Denmark, 1983,) and his most recent is maritime, (Saraband, Glasgow, 2016). He is the author of the novel A Book of Death and Fish (Saraband, 2014) and the non–fiction work Waypoints (Bloomsbury, 2018). He continues to collaborate with musicians, film–makers, and visual artists and is a volunteer skipper of the traditional boats of Lewis.

Ed Sanders:  attended New York University and earned a BA in ancient Greek. After college, he remained in New York City, where he opened the Peace Eye Bookstore and started Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts. He helped bridge the gap between the Beat generation and the countercultural movement of the 1960s. He is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and several biographies in verse. Among his books of prose include The Family (1971), which examines the Charles Manson murders. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a founding member of the subversive, satirical folk–rock music group the Fugs. In 2018 he published Broken Glory: The Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy. He lives in Woodstock, New York.

rob mclennan:  born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, and lives in Ottawa, when he is home full–time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction, and non–fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010 and the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid–Career Award in 2014. His most recent poetry titles include A halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019) and Life sentence, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019). He spent the 2007–8 academic year in Edmonton as writer–in–residence at the University of Alberta.