Martin Steingesser:  is author of three books of poems, his most recent is Yellow Horses.  He is also author of a performance work, Etty’s Song, based on the Journal and letters, of the Dutch writer and Holocaust martyr Etty Hillesum.  Poems have been published in The Sun, The Progressive, The Nation and in many literary journals, including The Ohio Review, American Poetry Review, and Poetry East.  He was nominated the first Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine 2007–2009.

Pam Burr Smith:  was awarded an Honorable Mention by Mary Oliver in the 1994 Maine Poetry Chapbook Contest.  She has published short stories, essays, articles, and poems in many journals, including, Georgia Review, Kansas Quarterly, Slow Dancer, and The Café Review.  She is the author of two poetry books, Heaven Jumping Woman, Moon Pie Press, 2011, and Near Stars, 2019, Blackberry Books.  She lives in Brunswick, Maine and is a Narrative Therapist.

Craig Sipe:  has written poetry most of his life and has been published in the Taproot Literary Review(Pennsylvania), the Anthology for the Austin International Poetry Festival (Texas), the Goose River Press Anthology, and the Maine Arts Review.

Betsy Sholl:  has published nine books of poetry, most recently House of Sparrows, New and Selected Poems(2019), winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press. Otherwise Unseeable (University of Wisconsin, 2014), won the 2014 Maine Literary Award for Poetry.  From 2006 to 2011 she was Poet Laureate of Maine.  She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and two Maine Artists Fellowships.  She taught, until recently, at the University of Southern Maine.