Shane Vaughan
Shane Vaughan: is a writer of poetry, prose, and plays. His work has been published in Silhouette Press, Poetry NI, The Pickled Body, Unbroken Journal, Honest Ulsterman, Silver Applesand elsewhere. In April 2017, his play, Puck & The Lovers,was performed in the Cork School of Music. He co-runs Stanzas: an Evening of Words, where he publishes a chapbook of new writing every month and is a board member of The Limerick Fringe, which debuted March 2017.
Jim Tilley
Jim Tilley: is a Canadian-born poet who holds a doctorate in physics from Harvard University and spent 25 years in insurance and investment banking, rising to senior management positions. He has published three collections of poetry, Lessons from Summer Camp (2016), Cruising at Sixty to Seventy (2014), and In Confidence (2011), all from Red Hen Press. Tilley’s short memoir, The Elegant Solution,was published as a Ploughshares solo (2013); his first novel, Against the Wind,is forthcoming from Red Hen. He is the recipient of the 2008 Sycamore Review’sWabash Prize for Poetry. He resides with his wife, Deborah Schneider, in Bedford Corners, New York.
Kevin Sweeney
Kevin Sweeney: has published three books of poems, Rags of Prayer,Ordinary Time,and Imminent Tribulations,all from Moon Pie Press. He received a master’s of fine arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1975. Since 1983, he has taught English at Southern Maine Community College, where he is department chair and shop steward of his union. He is a poetry editor at The Café Review.
G.H. Smith
G.H.Smith: has had work published in The Los Angeles Times,The Atlanta Review,StoryQuarterly,the anthology Husbands and Malfeasant Dogs,and elsewhere. His essay, “Ordinary Blessings,” was anthologized in Fathering Daughters, Reflections by Men(Beacon Press, 1999). A novel, The Gravity of Desire,was excerpted in Chicago Quarterly Review in Summer 2013. He splits his time between the States and British Columbia.