Myronn Hardy:  is the author of Radioactive Starlings (Princeton University Press, 2017), Kingdom (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2015); Catastrophic Bliss (Bucknell University Press, 2012), winner of the Griot–Stadler Prize for Poetry; The Headless Saints (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008), winner of the Hurston / Wright Legacy Award; and Approaching the Center (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2001), winner of the PEN /Oakland Josephine Miles Award. He lives in Maine.

Paul Guest:  is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, Slate, New England Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and numerous other publications. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Maggie Dubris:  was born in Georgia, grew up in Maryland and Michigan, and moved to New York City the minute she graduated from high school. She worked for over 20 years as a 911 paramedic in Manhattan, mainly in Hell’s Kitchen, and was a guitarist /songwriter for the all female extravaganza, “Homer Erotic.” She is the author of Skels (Soft Skull Press), Weep Not, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press) and In The Dust Zone (Centre–Ville Books). Her most recent book is BrokeDown Palace, (Subpress, 2019) a mixed–genre book about St. Clare’s Hospital, where she worked for all those years. She is now employed as an on–set paramedic in film and television, and has a black belt in karate.

Andy Clausen:  was born in a Belgian bomb shelter in 1943. He was raised in Oakland, California. He has taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University and given readings and lectures at many universities, prisons, poetry conferences, and cafes at home and around the world. He was co–editor of, Poems for the  Nation, with Allen Ginsberg. For twelve years, he conducted poetry workshops in the NY state prison system. He now resides in Woodstock, NY, where he teaches, writes, and performs his work. He lived with Janine Pommy Vega the last 12 years of her life and celebrates The Annual Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival in Woodstock.