Carol Hamilton is a writer and storyteller born in Enid, Oklahoma. She has an MA in English from the University of Central Oklahoma. She taught in the English Department of Rose State College for 10 years and for 7 years was on the graduate faculty of the Creative Studies Division of the English Department for the University of Central Oklahoma. She received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Central Oklahoma for 2007. Other awards include, Poet Laureate of the state of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1997, a Southwest Book Award in 1988 for a children’s novel, The Dawn Seekers, Cherubim Award for another children’s novel, The Mystery of Black Mesa, Byline Literary Awards for both short story and poetry, the David Ray Poetry Award in 2000, and the Warren Keith Wright Prize for Poetry in 2000.

Hedwig Gorski is an American poet, scholar, and artist who received awards for poetry and drama. She coined the term “performance poetry” in early 1980 to describe her poems written only for oral performance. She published three limited short books of poetry and released many audio collections. Her doctorate in creative writing is from the University of Louisiana. She received a Louisiana Artist’s Fellowship (2002), and a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture in Poland (2003). Some of her poems have been translated into Polish and published in Okolica. A micro book titled Poetique (2010), was a finalist for the Balcones Prize. A new manuscript of poems titled Glass Straw was a finalist in the 2011 National Poetry Series.

Larry Goodell was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1935 and studied with Robert Creeley at the University of New Mexico. He is a performance poet, playwright, music maker, and publisher. In 1963 he moved to Placitas, New Mexico and purchased a Rex–Rotary mimeo machine and published his first issue of Duende. After publishing fourteen issues of Duende (each dedicated to the work of one poet), he published the one–shot Oriental Blue Streak (1968), followed by the four–issue run of Fervent Valley (1972–74). Three recent books now grace the bookstore shelves: Broken Garden & The Unsaid Sings, 2012; Digital Remains, (2013); and Pieces of Heart, (2014).

Jack Foley his poetry books include Letters/Lights — Words for Adelle, Gershwin, Exiles, and Adrift (nominated for a BABRA Award). His Greatest Hits 1974–2003, (2004) appeared from Pudding House Press, a by–invitation–only series. His critical books include the companion volumes, O Powerful Western Star (winner of the Artists Embassy Literary/Cultural Award 1998–2000) and Foley’s Books: California Rebels, Beats, and Radicals. His radio show, Cover to Cover, is heard every Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. on Berkeley, California station KPFA and is available at the KPFA web site; his column, “Foley’s Books,” appears in the online magazine The Alsop Review.