Carol Alexander's latest poetry collection is Fever and Bone (Dos Madres Press, 2021). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, The Common, Southern Humanities Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Potomac Review, RHINO, and elsewhere. With Stephen Massimilla, she is co-editor of the anthology Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice (Cave Moon Press, 2022). alexandercarol409@gmail.com

Dave Bonta is a web publisher from central Pennsylvania, best known for the poetry film site movingpoems.com. His books of poetry include Ice Mountain (Phoenicia Publishing, 2017) and Breakdown: Banjo Poems (Seven Kitchens Press, 2013). He's currently involved in ecopoetic mapping of the local and regional landscape, as well as making erasure poems from every entry in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. www.davebonta.com

Nancy Ford Dugan's work has appeared in over fifty publications, including Cimarron Review, The Diverse Arts Project, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Dream Catcher Literary Magazine (UK), Ep;phany, Passages North, The Healing Muse, The MacGuffin, The Minnesota Review, Superstition Review, After Happy Hour Review, Blue Lake Review, Crack the Spine, Cobalt Review, Delmarva Review, El Portal, Glint Literary Journal, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Hawaii Pacific Review, Lowestoft Chronicle, Maryland Literary Review, Medicine and Meaning, Nonconformist Magazine, Paragon Journal, Penmen Review, Slippery Elm, and Tin House's Open Bar. nfdugan@aol.com

Michelle Hendrixson-Miller received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, where she served as poetry editor of Qu Literary Magazine. Her poems have appeared in Thrush, Josephine Quarterly, Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, The Moth, Adirondack Review, The Fourth River, One Art: a journal of poetry, Rust & Moth, and others. mraehendrixsonmill.wixsite.com/mhmpoems

Le Hinton is the author of seven poetry collections including, most recently, Elegies for an Empire (Iris G. Press, 2023). His work has been widely published and can be found in The Best American Poetry 2014, Baltimore Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Skinny Poetry Journal, Progressive Magazine, One Art, Little Patuxent Review, Pleiades, and outside Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, incorporated into Derek Parker's sculpture, Common Thread. www.LeHinton.com

Pamela Hughes is the author of two poetry collections: Meadowland Take My Hand (Three Mile Harbor Press, 2017) and Femistry (forthcoming in 2023). Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Canary, Literary Mama, PANK, Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College and is editor of the online literary and arts magazine Narrative Northeast. www.narrativenortheast.com

Anna Hynes is a recent graduate of The Latin School of Chicago. She has been writing creatively ever since her first short story assignment in second grade. She will be attending Wesleyan University in the fall, where she will be pursuing her passion for the written word and majoring in English. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, playing field hockey, and spending time with her friends. This is her first publication. ahynes@lsoc.org

Dinamarie Isola uses poetry and prose to tear down the isolation that comes from silently bearing internal struggles. In addition to her work as an investment advisor, Dinamarie has a blog, "RealSmartica," to help others better understand personal finance. Her work has been published in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Appalachian Review, Apricity Magazine, Avalon Literary Review, borrowed solace, Coachella Review, Courtship of Winds, Evening Street Review, Five on the Fifth, Mixed Mag, Nixes Mate Review, No Distance Between Us, Penumbra Literary and Art Journal, Perceptions Magazine, Potato Soup Journal, Remington Review, and Tulsa Review. www.DinaMarieIsola.com

Peter Leight lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has published poems in Paris Review, AGNI, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New World, Tupelo Quarterly, and other magazines. peter.leight@gmail.com

Lynda Rushing is a former pathologist turned labor attorney turned writer. She is currently working on a book of connected essays about growing up in Hawaii with an Army sergeant father and a Japanese war bride mother. She has had one creative nonfiction essay published, which was also named as runner-up in Solstice Literary Magazine's Summer Contest. drrusl@comcast.net