David Stankiewicz: is the author of My First Beatrice (Moon Pie Press, 2013).  Recent work has appeared in Innisfree, Poetry East,and the 25th anniversary issue of The Aurorean. A graduate of Andover Newton Theological School and the Stonecoast MFA program, he teaches at Southern Maine Community College.

Jim Rioux: in addition to appearing in these pages on several occasions, his poems and essays have been published in such journals as The North American Review, Prairie Schooner,Five Points, The Cortland Review, and Agenda. He is a recording artist for Burst and Bloom Records and teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.

Rush Rankin: has had poems appear in The Yale Review,The Paris Review,Triquarterly,and The Texas Review among others.  World Cat lists 111 national and international libraries that bought his book In Theory (Chelsea Editions, 2006).  His book Bene–Dictions won the Vassar Miller Prize in 2003.

Mary Bass Poulin: has had poems in Southern Poetry Review,The Comstock Review, pillway, Front Range Review, Progenitor, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Vermont College and teaches at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine.  She lives in the western mountains of the state with her family.