Terry McDonagh:  has taught creative writing at Universität Hamburg, Germany and was International School Drama Director.  He has published eleven poetry collections, prose, and poetry for young people. His work has been translated into German and Indonesian. He is the founder of Pen & Ink Writers Hamburg and Mayo. His latest poetry collection is Fourth Floor Flat: 44 Cantos (Arlen House).

Devorah Major:  served as San Francisco’s Third Poet Laureate (2002–2006). She has published two novels, four poetry books, and four poetry chapbooks, along with two young adult titles, and a host of short stories, essays, and individual poems published in anthologies and periodicals. Among her awards is a First Novelist award from the Black Caucus of the ALA and a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. In June 2015 she premiered her poetry play Classic Black: Voices of 19th–Century African–Americans in San Francisco at the San Francisco International Arts Festival. She is currently the poet–in–residence at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums and a Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts. More info and writing can be found at www.devorahmajor.com

Steve Luttrell:  is an internationally recognized Poet and Publisher. He is the founding editor of The Café Review, an award winning art and poetry journal, published in Portland, Maine since 1989. He is a past Poet Laureate for the city of Portland and is the author of five published collections of poetry, including his latest, Plumb Line, published by North Atlantic Books (Berkeley, Ca.) in 2015.

James Lowe:  lives in Topsham, Maine, has taught English from Fort Kent to Bangor. He published a study of American writer James Agee (LSU Press), a handful of essays, and Aroostook Sketches, a collection of Aroostook River stories.