Barbara Crooker is a poetry editor for Italian Americana and author of nine books, most recently Some Glad Morning (Pitt Poetry Series). Her awards include the Best Book of Poetry 2018 from Poetry by the Sea, the WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships. Her work appears in a variety of anthologies, including The Bedford Introduction to Literature. barbaracrooker.com

Emma DePanise's poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, The Minnesota Review, The Los Angeles Review, New York Quarterly, The National Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at Purdue University, a poetry editor for Sycamore Review, and a co-editor of The Shore Poetry. www.emmadepanise.com

Ella Flores received her MFA from Northern Michigan University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in South Carolina Review, RHINO Poetry, Nimrod Journal, Harpur Palate, and other journals. eflores235@gmail.com

Perry Genovesi works as a librarian in Philadelphia. He serves his fellow workers as a shop steward in AFSCME Local 2187 and plays bass in the band Canid. Read more of his fiction in ZiN Daily, Loud Coffee Press, CC&D and elsewhere. He's still trying to think of the term for when someone on Zoom walks through their home and you're glued to their voyage. Twitter: @unionlibrarian

Erica Goss is the winner of the 2019 Zocalo Poetry Prize. Her collection, Night Court, won the 2017 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction, North Dakota Quarterly, Spillway, San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere. She served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA, from 2013-2016 and edits the newsletter Sticks & Stones. www.ericagoss.com

Brandon Hansen is a Truman Capote Scholar at the University of Montana's MFA program. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in LIT Magazine, Puerto Del Sol, Cape Rock Poetry, and a few other places. He is from a village in northern Wisconsin named Long Lake, and if you are wondering, the lake is, indeed, long. brandonhansenwriting.wordpress.com

Peter E. Murphy has published eleven books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. His writing has appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Common, Guernica, Hippocampus, The Literary Review, The New Welsh Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. Born in Wales, he is the founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University in Atlantic City. www.peteremurphy.com

R. C. Neighbors is an Oklahoma expatriate who received a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Texas A&M University and an M.F.A from Hollins University. He currently serves as a Lecturer at the Texas A&M Higher Education Center in McAllen, TX. He lives with his wife, four kids, two dogs, two orphan kitties, and a photo of himself with the head of hair and motorcycle he used to have. His work has appeared in Tampa Review, Barely South Review, Found Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Anthology: Texas, and elsewhere. rneighb@tamu.edu

Bruce Parker holds a BA in History from the University of Maryland Far East Division, Okinawa, Japan; and an MA in Secondary Education from the University of New Mexico. He has worked as an ESL teacher, technical editor, and translator. His work has appeared in The Inflectionist Review, Pif, Blue Unicorn, The Hamilton Stone Review, and elsewhere, and his chapbook, Ramadan in Summer, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. He lives in Portland, Oregon. dotcyclist@yahoo.com

Francine Witte's poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, and Passages North. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press,) The Way of the Wind (AdHoc fiction,) and The Theory of Flesh (Kelsay Books). She is flash fiction editor for Flash Boulevard and The South Florida Poetry Journal. Her chapbook, The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon (flash fiction) was published by ELJ Editions in September, 2021. Other work of hers appeared in our Spring 2020 issue. She lives in New York City. fran.witte@gmail.com