Shiv Mirabito is a tantrik Buddhist–Hindu yogi, anthropologist, archivist, artist, photographer, publisher, and poet who began writing as a teenager while living at Allen Ginsberg’s Cherry Valley poetry commune. He now divides his time between Woodstock, India, and Nepal. His small press Shivastan Press {Woodstock~Kathmandu} is the only press that prints chapbooks and broadsides on handmade paper in Nepal. It is inspired by the famous Bardo Matrix Press of Ira Cohen and Angus Maclise which also published in Nepal and also the Hanuman Press series by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente which published in India. He is also the director of The Shivastan Poetry Ashram, which is a book shop, art gallery, gift shop, and grassroots co–operative community promoting poetry, friendship, wisdom, and compassion for all beings located in central Woodstock, NY. Frequent gatherings include poetry, music, vegetarian potlucks, and bonfires in a lush secret garden.

John Macker has been a widely published short story writer, essayist, playwright, and poet for over 20 years. He has won several awards for his work as well as being nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. His most recent book of poetry is Blood in the Mix (with El Paso poet Lawrence Welsh). He is also the author of Disassembled Badlands, Underground Sky, Adventures in the Gun Trade, Woman of the Disturbed Earth, and The Royal Road: Impression of El Camino Real (with woodblock artist Leon Loughridge). His poetry appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of The Café Review.

Daniel Lusk his recent poetry collection, The Vermeer Suite (Wind Ridge Books, 2015), features poems inspired by paintings of 17th Century master Johannes Vermeer. The book has beautiful prints of the paintings alongside the poems. Recent poetry also includes Kin (Wind Ridge Books, 2013), prompted by encounters with Vermont wildlife and fueled by folklore; Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain (2011). Other books: Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems (1999). His work has appeared in Poetry, New Letters, Poetry Ireland, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, North American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Nimrod, The Southern Review, The Louisville Review, and many others. He received the Pushcart Prize 2016 for genre–bending essay “Bomb.”

Suzanne Langlois lives in Portland, Maine, where she teaches high school English. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Off the Coast, Yellow Chair Review, Rattle Poets Respond, Third Point Press, Menacing Hedge, and English Journal, as well as in the anthologies Passion and Pride: Poets in Support of Equality, Word Portland’s Be Wilder, and Hysteria. She holds a BA in English from Tufts University and a M.Ed. in Teacher Leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education.