John J. Trause: the Director of Oradell Public Library, is the author of Eye Candy for Andy (Finishing Line Press, 2013); Inside Out, Upside Down, and Round and Round (Nirala Publications, 2012); Seriously Serial (Poets Wear Prada, 2007; rev. ed. 2014); and Latter–Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996), the latter staged Off–Off Broadway. He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J.

Richard Tillinghast: has published twelve books of poetry. His 2000 book, Six Mile Mountain, is being reprinted by StoryLine / RedHen. Poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He has been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA and the NEH, the British Council, the Irish Arts Council, and other organizations. His most recent collection of poetry is Wayfaring Stranger, Word Palace Press, 2012.

Ellen M. Taylor: is the author of one chapbook, Humming to Snails and two collections of poetry, Floating and Compass Rose. Her work has been in the New England Review and North American Review, among others. She teaches literature and writing at the University of Maine at Augusta.

Sarah Sarai: is author of That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books), Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books), and The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX Books). Her poems are in Barrow Street, Sinister Wisdom, The Southampton Review, Say It Loud: Poems About James Brown (Whirlwind), and other journals and anthologies.