Alice Duggan: Poems by Alice Duggan have appeared in Sleet Magazine, Water~Stone Review, Tar River Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry East, Nimrod, Sugar House, SAND, Poet Lore and elsewhere; also in a chapbook, A Brittle Thing, and an anthology, Home, from Holy Cow! Press. She’s interested in dailiness, in colloquial speech, the rhythm of voices; in telling stories.

R.H. DeVault: left her legal writing career of paralegal in 2023 to pursue creative writing. She has enjoyed several publications of her poetry and memoir. She intends to pursue her passion for writing in the form of a full published memoir as well as reflections on her survival of domestic violence. She lives in Gallatin, Tennessee with her husband, Michael, and her children.

Xue Di: was born in Beijing. He is the author of four volumes of collected works and one book of criticism on contemporary Chinese poetry in Chinese. In English translation, he has published five full length books, Across Borders, Zone, Another Kind of Tenderness, An Ordinary Day and Heart into Soil, and four chapbooks, Forgive, Cat’s Eye in a Splintered Mirror, Circumstances and Flames. His work has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies and has been translated into several languages. Xue Di is a two-time recipient of the Hellman/Hammett Award, a recipient of the Artemis A. Joukowsky fellowship through Brown University, and a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Fellowship.

Kate Cheney: is a mixed media artist and poet whose work reflects her deep concern for the natural world. Her exhibit, “InterRelated: One Artist’s Response to Rachel Carson,” marked the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring, and opened in Pittsburgh at Chatham University in 2012. Kate’s artwork is in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the University of New England, Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges, and the New Britain Museum of American Art. Her poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Chrysalis, and Emrys Journal, among others. She brought poets and artists together on Monhegan for a collaborative show, and belongs to a long-running poetry group on the island. Their anthology of poems, Island Voices II was a Finalist for the 2015 Maine Literary Awards.