Thomas Luhrmann: his poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Paris Review, Partisan Review, The Nation, Ironwood, kayak, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Lillabulero. He currently lives in New York City — on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A volume of his poems, The Objects in the Garden, was published by Wesleyan University Press.

Gary Lawless: is co–owner of Gulf of Maine Bookstore. His most recent book of poems is How the Stones Came to Venice from Littoral Books. His book Caribouddhism will soon be published in a French translation by editions eres, Toulouse, France.

Virginia Konchan: is the author of five poetry collections, Requiem (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025), Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022) Hallelujah Time (Véhicule Press, 2021), Any God Will Do (Carnegie Mellon, 2020), and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon, 2018), a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017), as well as coeditor of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023). Recipient of fellowships from the Amy Clampitt Residency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Banff Centre, and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, The Believer, and the Academy of American Poets.

Mary Kaczowka: lives in York, Maine.