Bobby Breen:  was born in Boston.  After his decades-long career as a Boston firefighter, he retired, taking his love of writing to the next level by entering at Harvard University.  The Faculty of Arts and Sciences judges unanimously decided to publish his poem “The Eighth Circle” in The Harvard Summer Reviewin 2000.  This poem was also published in Hello Poetry.  Honorable Mention was received from the Key West Poets & Writers 1997 for “The Reef.”  He lives in Brunswick, Maine with his wife, Karen.

Mike Bove:  is the author of Big Little City (Moon Pie Press, 2018), a book of poems written in and about his hometown of Portland, Maine.  He lives in Portland with his family and teaches in the English Department at Southern Maine Community College.

Jim Bishop:  lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife Joanna Young and their spirited Golden Retriever, Moxie.  He communes with his enchanted garden and writes as the whispers move him.

Katherine Hagopian Berry:  appears in Balancing Act II: An Anthology of Poetry by Fifty Maine Women, Glass: Poet’s Resist, The Belfast Poetry Festival, and the Frost Meadow Review, with a poem forthcoming in A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis.  She lives and writes in Bridgton, Maine.