JC Alfier

JC Alfier’s (they/them) most recent book of poetry, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature Press (2020). Journal credits include Faultline, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, Raleigh Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Vassar Review. They are also an artist doing collage and double-exposure work.

Tobi Alfier

Tobi Alfier is published nationally and internationally. Credits include War, Literature and the Arts, The American Journal of Poetry, KGB Bar Lit Mag, Washington Square Review, Cholla Needles, James Dickey Review, Gargoyle, Permafrost, Arkansas Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others. She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.bluehorsepress.com).

Sarah Carleton

Sarah Carleton writes poetry, edits fiction, plays the banjo, and knits obsessively in Tampa, Florida. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Nimrod, Tar River Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and New Ohio Review. Her first collection, Notes from the Girl Cave, was published in 2020 by Kelsay Books.

Lon S. Kaufman

Lon S. Kaufman retired and began writing poetry in Winter 2021. A Professor of Molecular Biology, he served as Vice Chancellor & Provost at the University of Illinois at Chicago and subsequently, Hunter College (CUNY). 

Andrea Krause

Andrea Krause lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Small Orange, Whale Road Review, HAD, Rust and Moth, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. She’s on Twitter at @PNWPoetryFog and at andreakrausewrites.com.

Thomas Pack

Thomas Pack is a Louisville, Kentucky, writer whose work has been published in Sonora Review, The Louisville Review, Thinker Magazine, and LEO (Louisville Eccentric Observer). He has won two awards in LEO's annual fiction contest.

Brendan Todt

Brendan Todt lives in Sioux City, Iowa. His poem “Because the Living May Be Worth Something, Too” was selected as a Best of the Net nominee by Ekphrastic Review. He won the 2021 Juxtaprose Poetry prize. He teaches creative writing at Morningside University.