Edward J. Rielly:  is professor emeritus of English and former director of the Writing and Publishing Program at Saint Joseph’s College in Maine.  He is the author or editor of approximately thirty books, most recently Beautiful Lightning: Spiritual Poems in a Difficult World (Wipf & Stock, 2019) and A Bed of Geraniums (Encircle Publications, 2019).

Patricia Smith Ranzoni:  descends from people whose rusted kettles are still found in Maine’s hedgerows.  Her anthology, STILL MILL, Poems, Stories & Songs of Making Paper in Bucksport, Maine 1930 –2014 (North Country) was juried into Portland’s Union of Maine Visual Arts exhibit, “The Way Life Is —  Maine’s Working People and Communities;” and her poetry for Maine Farmland Trust’s winter “Homeland” show.

Gary Rainford:  author of Salty Liquor and Liner Notes, he lives year-round on Swan’s Island with his wife and daughter.  His third book, in progress, is a novel in verse that tells the story of his mother’s dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Bruce Pratt:  is the author of the novel The Serpents of Blissful!, Mountain State Press, Boreal: Poems, Antrim House Books, The Trash Detail: Stories, New Rivers Press, and a chapbook Forms and Shades, Clare Songbird Publishing.  His fiction, poetry, drama, and essays have appeared in journals in the U.S. Canada, Ireland, and Wales.  He is the editor of American Fiction.