Pat Murphy:  owned and operated Yes Bookstore in Portland, Maine for many years.  He loved searching for old and rare books at yard sales throughout Maine.  He devoted many hours helping animals in need as well as countless donations to many animal refuge programs.  He was the author of Riding Buddhas’ Bicycle.

Thomas R. Moore:  has published four books of poems: The Bolt–Cutters (2010), Chet Sawing (2012), Saving Nails (2016), and Red Stone Fragments (2019).  His work is represented in more than thirty-five literary journals.  His poem “How We Built Our House” won a Pushcart Prize.  From 2017 through 2018 he served as Poet Laureate for Belfast, Maine.

Leslie Moore:  has published poems in Take Heart, The Catch, The Wheelbarrow School of Poetry, and Balancing Act 2.  She won a Maine Literary Award for her short, non-fiction essay, “The Architecture of a Marriage” in 2018.  Two of her poems have been finalists in the Maine Postmark Poetry contest.

Jacqueline Moore:  was born in Greenwich Village in 1926.  She moved to Europe as an adult and lived for twelve years between London and Warsaw.  She returned to the U.S. in the ’70s, and studied poetry with Seamus Heaney at Harvard.  Throughout her life, she always returned to her home in the back-woods of Maine, the inspiration for much of her poetry in Chasing the Grass.  Her work also appears in Balancing Act 2: An Anthology of Poems by Fifty Maine Women (Littoral Books, 2018).