Frederick Wilbur:  is an architectural woodcarver and has written three books on the subject and three dozen articles on woodworking.  He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with his wife and family.

Wren Tuatha:  is founding editor of the literary journal, Califragile.  Her poetry has appeared in The Café Review,Canary, Peacock Journal, Coachella Review, Baltimore Review, Loch Raven Review, and elsewhere.  She studied film and poetry at Towson University, where she minored in Gay and Lesbian Studies.  She received grants from Towson University’s Women’s Center and Office of Diversity to perform her slam play, “This Is How She Steps on Snakes.”  She and her partner, author/activist C.T. Lawrence Butler, herd skeptical goats in the Camp Fire burn zone of California.

James Sutherland-Smith:  was born in Scotland, but lives in Slovakia.  He has published seven collections of his own poetry, the most recent being The River and the Black Cat published by Shearsman Books in 2018.  He also translates poetry from Slovak and Serbian for which he has received the Slovak Hviezdoslav Prize and the Serbian Zlatko Krasni Prize.  His most recent is from the poetry of Mila Haugová, Eternal Traffic, published in Britain by Arc Publications.

Nathan Smith:  has been a student of Robert Kelly and Charles Stein at Bard College and Kenneth Irby at the University of Kansas.  He has been featured at the Big Tent Reading series in Lawrence, KS and on KJHK radio.