Mary MacGowan: is currently exchanging poem postcards with poet Michelle Everett Wilbert. They’re finding it exhilarating, exhausting, and a great way to literally put yourself out there. MacGowan has had over 50 poems published in literary journals. She hopes to have a chapbook by the end of the year.

Ron Kolm: is a co-editor of From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream and a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin. He is the author of Night Shift and A Change in the Weather.  He’s had work in Maintenant, Local Knowledge,and Live Mag! His papers are archived at New York Unversity.

David Jordan: edited the anthology The Café at St. Mark’s and recently published a poem, “Dancing in the Flames” about his mother’s death and struggle with dementia.  As a counselor, he often sees the people with whom he works using writing to help them with recovery.

Anna Halberstadt: is a poet and a translator. She has published four collections of poetry, Vilnius Diary, Transit, Green in a Landscape with Ashes and Gloomy Sun, and two books of translations of American poetry, Selected Selected by Eileen Myles and Nocturnal Fire by Edward Hirsch, into Russian. She has translated poetry by eight Lithuanian poets into the Russian and English.  Her poems have been published and anthologized in over 60 publications in English, Russian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian. She is a recipient of several awards, such as the International Merit Award by Atlanta Review, two nominations for Pushcart award by the Mudfish journal and others. Her collection Vilnius Diary, translated into Lithuanian by Marius Burokas was named one of ten best books of 2017 by Lt.15 and also named one of best books, published in 2017 by the Association of Lithuanian Translators.