Jeffrey Thomson:  is a poet, memoirist, translator, editor, and the author of nine books including, Half/Life: New and Selected Poems from Alice James Books (October 2019), the memoir fragile, The Belfast Notebooks, and The Complete Poems of Catullus.  He has been an NEA Fellow, the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast, and the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University.  He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington.

Richard Taylor:  his education came from Dartmouth University, the University of Kiel, and Yale University. He was a member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Ski Team.  For twenty years (through 2007) he was a teacher of German, Latin, and English and a cross-country ski coach at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine.  He and his wife Sally still live in Bethel.  His first book, The Absence of Strangers, was published by Goose River Press in 2017.

Ellen M. Taylor:  is the author of two collections of poetry and one chapbook: Floating, Compass Rose, and Humming to Snails. A  Professor of English, she received her doctorate in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program at Harvard University.  She teaches literature, writing, and gender studies at the University of Maine at Augusta, as well as at the Maine State Prison.  She lives in Appleton, Maine with her husband and family.

Kathleen Sullivan:  lives in the woods in Freeport, Maine.  A psychotherapist, she didn’t start writing until her 60’s.  Currently, she is co-editing an anthology on climate change by Maine writers, a topic so recent and ineffable that it calls for new language.