Meg Smith:  is a poet, dancer, journalist, and events organizer living in Lowell, Massachusetts.  She served on the board of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! from 1995 to 2009.  In addition to previous appearances in The Café Review, her poems have appeared in Pudding, The Offering, Poetry Bay, and many other publications and anthologies.  In 2017,  she published her second poetry book, Dear Deepest Ghost.

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.

Thaddeus Rutkowski:  is the author of six books, most recently Border Crossings, a poetry collection.  His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers Workshop’s members’ choice award, and his memoir Guess and Check won the Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural  fiction.

Mike Pacey:  was born in 1952 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.  He received his PhD (specializing in Canadian literature) from UBC.  His work has appeared in more than twenty literary magazines including The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Exile, Prairie Fire, and Descant.  He has also published a chapbook, Anonymous Mesdemoiselles, (New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1972) and a children’s book The Birds of Christmas, (Three Trees Press, 1987).  In April 2015 he released Electric Affinities, from Signature Editions.