Carolyn Gelland: her poems have been published in Notre Dame Review, The Anglican Theological Review, The Bitter Oleander, Quiddity and many other journals, along with several book reviews and essays. She has also published two collections of poems, Dream–Shuttle and Four–Alarm House.

Joanne Esser: writes poetry and nonfiction in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has been a teacher of young children for over thirty years. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University and published a chapbook of poems, “I Have Always Wanted Lightning,” with Finishing Line Press in 2012. Her work appears in The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Welter, Into the Void, Temenos, Common Ground Review, and Water ~Stone Review, among others. She has two daughters, and is working on her first children’s book.

Karen Douglas: her work includes Red Goddess Poems; Bones in the Chimney (fiction); Green Rider, Thinking Horse (non–fiction); Sostenuto, (poems); The Great Hunger (poems); Two–Gun Lil (poems); and three novels: Accidental Child, Providence (both climate fiction) and Invisible Juan (magical realism). Individual poems have appeared in a wide variety of publications. She holds an MA in English Lit from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College. Please, visit her at www.kvdbooks.com. She lives in Colorado with her daughter, son–in– law, three dogs, and a black cat named Haiku.

Craig Cotter: was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in California since 1986. His fourth collection of poetry, After Lunch With Frank O’Hara, is available from Chelsea Station Editions, New York. New poems have appeared in Ambit, Antigonish Review, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Poetry Journal, Court Green, Dalhousie Review, Gay & Lesbian Review, Great Lakes Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Hawaii Review, Los Angeles Review, and Tampa Review.