Lee Sharkey:  is the author of Walking Backwards, Calendars of Fire, A Darker, Sweeter String, and eight earlier full-length poetry collections and chapbooks.  Her poems have appeared in The Café Review, Crazyhorse, FIELD, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, and other journals and anthologies.

Annie Seikonia:  is a writer and artist who has lived in Portland, Maine for over thirty years.  Her work was recently included in Balancing Act 2: An Anthology of Poems by Fifty Maine Women and North by Northeast: New Short Fiction by Writers from Maine and New England, both published by Littoral Books.

Russ Sargent:  is a former member of Group 18 in Northampton, Massachusetts, former winner of the San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry Competition (1995), and former poet in residence at Fort Juniper in Leverett, Massachusets.  He was a member of the 1994 Portland Slam Team and is the owner of Yes Books on Congress Street in Portland.

Kenneth Rosen:  taught English at the University of Southern Maine for 40 years and founded and directed  the Stonecoast Writers’ Conference in 1981.  He won the 1989 Distinguished Faculty Award, held and delivered the 1994–96 Russell Chair lecture, “A Spy in the House of the Thought Police,” and won Fulbright Awards to Bulgaria, Egypt, Cyprus, and published 10 books of poetry.