is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and composes poetry in six languages. She has published from Finland to the Seychelles, and her work has been recognized by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate. One of her poems orbited the planet Mars on NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. Read more at ferngzcarr.com.

lives in New Hampshire with he wife Janice and their German Shepherd, Zoe the Wonder Dog. His work has appeared in a number of literary journals, among them: Rattle, Calliope, Nerve Cowboy, and Blue Collar Review; his work is forthcoming in Hypertrophic Literary, The Cape Rock, and Oasis.

Born in 1954, Kim Addonizio lived for most of her adult life in California, but is currently based in New York City. Her poetry books include: The Philosopher’s Club (1994); Jimmy & Rita (1997), a novel–in–verse; Tell Me (2000); What Is This Thing Called Love (2004); Lucifer at the Starlite (2009); My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits (2014), a collaboration with woodcut artist Charles D. Jones; and, last October, her first U.K. publication, Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems from Bloodaxe Books. She has also published fiction, notably the novels Little Beauties (2005) and My Dreams Out in the Street (2007), as well as a short story collection, The Palace of Illusions (2014). Addonizio’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and Pushcart Prizes for both poetry and the essay. Commenting on Tell Me, a National Book Award Finalist, former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins remarked, “Kim Addonizio’s poems are stark mirrors of self–examination, and she looks into them without blinking.

is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published four books of poems over the past 20 years, most recently Night Call (Plain View Press, 2011) and Blue Damsels (Peter Randall Press, 2005). His work has appeared in many magazines, including Off the Coast and Ploughshares.