Mark Belair

Mark Belair's poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Alabama Literary Review, Harvard Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Author of seven collections of poems, his most recent books are two works of fiction: Stonehaven (Turning Point, 2020) and its sequel, Edgewood (Turning Point, 2022). He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize multiple times, as well as for a Best of the Net Award. Please visit www.markbelair.com

Cat Dixon

Cat Dixon is the author of What Happens in Nebraska (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2022) along with six other poetry chapbooks and collections. She is a poetry editor with The Good Life Review. Recent poems published in The Book of Matches, North of Oxford, hex, and The Southern Quill.

Gary Duehr

Gary Duehr has taught creative writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2001 he received an NEA Fellowship, and he has also received grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. His writing has appeared in Agni, American Literary Review, Chiron Review, Cottonwood, Hawaii Review, Hotel Amerika, Iowa Review, North American Review, and Southern Poetry Review. His books include Winter Light (Four Way Books) and Where Everyone Is Going To (St. Andrews College Press).

Ken Haas

Ken Haas’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Barely South, Cider Press Review, Clare, Cottonwood, Forge, Freshwater, Helix, Hiram Poetry Review, Mudlark, Natural Bridge, Nimrod International Journal, Pennsylvania English, Permafrost, Poet Lore, Prism, Quiddity, Schuylkill Valley Journal Of The Arts, Soundings East, and Spoon River Poetry Review. His poetry has been anthologized in The Place That Inhabits Us (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010), The Marin Poetry Center Anthology (2012, 2013), Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (Scarlett Tanager Books, 2018), Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets who Live Here (Blue Light Press, 2021), Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers (Heyday Books, 2021), and others. Find out more at kenhaas.org.

James Croal Jackson

James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023) and Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022). Recent poems are in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Lakeshore Review, and confetti. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Find out more at jamescroaljackson.com.

Julie Allyn Johnson

Julie Allyn Johnson is a sawyer's daughter from the American Midwest whose current obsession is tackling the rough and tumble sport of quilting and the accumulation of fabric. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her poetry can be found in Star*Line, The Briar Cliff Review, Phantom Kangaroo, Lyrical Iowa, Cream Scene Carnival, Coffin Bell, The Lake, Haikuniverse, Chestnut Review and other journals.

Russell Rowland

Russell Rowland is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee and writes from New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, where he has judged high-school Poetry Out Loud competitions. His latest poetry book, Magnificat, is available from Encircle Publications.

Michael Sandler

Michael Sandler is the author of a poetry collection, The Lamps of History (FutureCycle Press 2021). His work has appeared in scores of journals, including recently in THINK, Literary Imagination, and Smartish Pace. Michael lives near Seattle; his website is sandlerpoetry.com

Michael Sofranko

Michael Sofranko received his MFA from the Writers Workshop at University of Iowa. He received the Sean Christopher Britton Award for his collection of poetry, Homing Instincts, and the Antonio Machado Prize for his collection, American Sign. He co-authored The Vapors, a series for television.

Lynn Strongin

Lynn Strongin is an American poet living in Canada and was just nominated for a lifetime writing award in Canada. StorySouth is also preparing a retrospective of her work. A former contributor to Stickman Review, she has published 12 books of poetry, is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Strongin is a Pulitzer Prize nominee in literature for Spectral Freedom some years ago. Her home is now British Columbia, although her heart-home remains New York City.

Jim Tilley

Jim Tilley has published three full-length collections of poetry and a novel with Red Hen Press. His short memoir, The Elegant Solution, was published as a Ploughshares Solo. His poem, On the Art of Patience, was selected by Billy Collins to win Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Poetry. Four of his poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His next poetry collection, Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe: New & Selected Poems, will be published in June 2024.

Dennis Vannatta

Dennis Vannatta is a Pushcart and Porter Prize winner, with essays and stories published in many magazines and anthologies, including Stickman Review, River Styx, Chariton Review, Boulevard, and Antioch Review. His sixth collection of stories, The Only World You Get¸ was published by Et Alia Press.