Julie Poitras Santos:  her writing has appeared in The Café Review, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, The Chart, Living Maps Review, The New Guard,and Be Wilder: A Word Portland Anthology,among others.  Her poetry was selected as the Poets & Writers Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Contest first runner-up in 2017.  Also a visual artist, her artwork has been exhibited widely in the US and abroad.  She is a professor in the MFA Program at Maine College of Art.

Alyse Knorr:  is an assistant professor of English at Regis University and co-editor of Switchback Books.  Her most recent book of poems, Mega–City Redux,won the 2016 Green Mountains Review Poetry Prize, selected by Olena Kalytiak Davis. She is also the author of the poetry collections Copper Motherand Annotated Glass,the non-fiction bookSuper Mario Bros. 3,and three poetry chapbooks.  Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review,and The Cincinnati Review,among others.

Wayne Atherton:  is senior editor of The Café Review.