Kristen Case:  her first poetry collection, Little Arias (New Issues, 2015) won the Maine literary Award for Poetry, and her second collection, Principles of Economics (Switchback Books) won the 2018 Gatewood Prize.  She is co-editor of the volumes Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments (Cambridge University Press) and 21|19: Contemporary Poets in the 19th Century Archive (Milkweed Editions).  She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Bill Carpenter:  grew up in Waterville, Maine, went to Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota, taught at the University of Chicago, then returned to Maine to start the College of the Atlantic in 1972.  He received the AWP award in poetry for The Hours of Morning and the Samuel French Morse award for Rain. His novels are A Keeper of Sheep, set on Cape Cod in the 1980s, The Wooden Nickel, set on the Maine Coast in contemporary times.

Dennis Camire:  is the founder of the Portland Poet Laureate Program.  He is an adjunct professor at CMCC an UMA.  His poems have appeared in Poetry East, Spoon River Review, Mid American Review, Hamilton Stone Review, and other journals and anthologies.  In 2017 Deerbrook Editions published his first book, Combed by Crows.  He lives in an A-frame in West Paris, Maine.

Linda Buckmaster:  has spent most of her life within a block of the Atlantic Ocean, growing up in “Space Coast”Florida and living the past forty years in midcoast Maine.  Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in over thirty literary journals, and one of her pieces was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2013.  She has an MFA in Creative Writing and teaches in the University of Maine System.