Laurel Anderson is a plant ecologist and poet. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in River Heron Review, Pangyrus and Canary, and in the scientific journal BioScience. She teaches at Ohio Wesleyan University and lives with her family in central Ohio, USA.

Emma Aylor’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, New Ohio Review, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, and the Cincinnati Review, among other journals, and she received Shenandoah’s 2020 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. She lives in Lubbock, Texas.

P. V. Beck’s poems are from Fox Went Out, a cycle of poetry that traces the language of wildness and the unspooling of patterns and cycles in a Gray fox’s world. She has authored books and essays on ecology, consciousness and the fool. She lives in northern New Mexico.

Michael Brosnan’s most recent poetry book is The Sovereignty of the Accidental (Harbor Mountain Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Rattle, Confrontation, Borderlands, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, New Letters, and The Moth. He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Abby Caplin’s poems have appeared in AGNI, Catamaran, Manhattanville Review, Midwest Quarterly, Salt Hill, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. Among her awards, she has been a finalist for the Rash Award in Poetry and semi-finalist for the Willow Run Poetry Book Award. She is a physician in San Francisco. http://abbycaplin.com

Joellen Craft lives on the Delmarva Peninsula with her family. Her work has recently appeared in Radar Poetry, The Penn Review, and The Collagist, who nominated her poems for a Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook THE QUARRY (2020) won L+S Press's Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series competition. www.joellencraft.com

Mary Pacifico Curtis is the author of Between Rooms and The White Tree Quartet, both chapbooks published by WordTech's Turning Point imprint, as well as poetry and prose that has appeared in The Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, The Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, LOST Magazine, Catamaran, and Calyx and in numerous anthologies. She was a 2012 Joy Harjo Poetry Finalist (Cutthroat Journal), 2019 Poetry Finalist in The Tiferet Journal, a non-fiction finalist in The 48th New Millenium Writings contest, and a 2020 poetry finalist in the Naugatuck River Review.

Noah Davis grew up in Tipton, Pennsylvania, and writes about the Allegheny Front. His manuscript Of This River won the 2019 Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Prize from Michigan State University’s Center for Poetry, and his poems and prose have appeared in The Sun, Best New Poets, Orion, North American Review, and River Teeth among others.

Todd Davis is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Native Species and Winterkill. He has won the Midwest Book Award, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and the Chautauqua Editors Prize. He teaches environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.

Mary Alice Dixon lives in Charlotte, NC, where she volunteers with hospice. She has been an attorney and a professor of architectural history who taught in China, North Carolina, and Minnesota. Her recent work is in, or forthcoming from, Kakalak, Main Street Rag, Mythic Circle, Capsule Stories, That Southern Thing, County Lines, Stonecoast Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Passager's Pandemic Diaries, Pine Song Awards: 2021, and elsewhere.

Michelle Dyer is a teacher and poet currently living in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work has been published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, among others.

John Elliott is a retired biologist and teacher. He has published poetry in Acorn, The Comstock Review, Southwestern American Literature, Poetry Quarterly, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Tanka Journal, and the anthologies Buzz, Rare Feathers, To Give Life a Shape.

Molly Fuller is the author of For Girls Forged by Lightning: Prose & Other Poems (All Nations Press) and two chapbooks Tender the Body (Spare Change Press) and The Neighborhood Psycho Dreams of Love (Cutty Wren Press). She is the winner of Gris Gris’s 2020 Summer Poetry Contest.

Peter Grandbois is the author of eleven books. His work has appeared in over one hundred journals. His plays have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. He is poetry editor at Boulevard and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. You can find him at www.petergrandbois.com.

Greg Hewett is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, "Blindsight" (Coffee House Press) and a forthcoming novel, "No Names." He teaches at Carleton College and lives in Minneapolis.

Ivan Hobson is an MFA graduate from San Francisco State University. Along with teaching English at Diablo Valley College, he is also a multigenerational machinist who works at a shipyard. Ivan’s poetry has appeared in publications including, the North American Review, The Malahat Review, Hunger Mountain, as well as Ted Kooser and The Poetry Foundation’s American Life in Poetry.

D. Iasevoli taught for 40 years. He received his doctorate from Columbia University, and, in 2000, he was New York City’s “Poetry Teacher of the Year.” His chapbook, The Less Said, was featured at the Bowery Poetry Café. He now lives in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, where he serves as a volunteer firefighter and makes bows.

Andrew Jarvis is the author of The Strait, Landslide, and Blood Moon. His poems have appeared in Cottonwood, Measure, Plainsongs, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and several others. He holds high honors from the Nautilus, INDIE Book of the Year, FAPA, CIPA EVVY, and NextGen Indie Book Awards. Andrew holds an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and lives in Orlando, Florida.

Sarah B. Ledbetter is a dancing writer and a writing dancer whose work for screen, stage, and page has been presented nationally and internationally. Recent publications include Floromancy, Poetry Superhighway, Right Hand Pointing, and R and R Literary Journal. She's currently at work on her first collection as well as a site-specific dance about female solitudes.

Joanna Lee, M.D., has had her work published in numerous journals and has been nominated for both Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes. She is the author of Dissections (2017), a co-editor of the anthology Lingering in the Margins (2019), and founder of the Richmond, Virginia community River City Poets.

Angie Macri is the author of Underwater Panther (Southeast Missouri State University), winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize. Her recent work appears in The Cincinnati Review, Quarterly West, and South Dakota Review. An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, she lives in Hot Springs and teaches at Hendrix College.

Donna Mendelson lives in Missoula, Montana, and serves as a faculty affiliate in the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana. Her poetry has appeared in Blueline and Rendezvous and is forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

Native of Boston and Martha's Vineyard, MA., Stelios Mormoris is CEO of EDGE BEAUTY, Inc. He has published work in The Fourth River, Gargoyle, Humana Obscura, Midwest Poetry Review, the Nassau Literary Review, Press, Spillway, Sugar House Review, Verse, the Whelk Walk Review and other literary journals.

Ruth Mota lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California where she writes verse and sometimes leads poetry circles in the community to veterans and men in jail. Her poems have been published in various online and print journals including: Terrapin Books, Passager Books and Black Mountain Press.

Gathondu Mwangi is a geographer who occasionally dabbles in poetry. He spends his time between Massachusetts and Kenya, his home country.

Dayna Patterson is the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her creative work has appeared recently in The Carolina Quarterly, Passages North, and Whale Road Review. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre and a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. She was a co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky. daynapatterson.com

Beth Peterson is the author of Dispatches from the End of Ice. A wilderness guide before she began writing, Beth’s essays and poems appear in The Pinch, Fourth Genre, Terrain.org, and other publications. Beth lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she is an associate professor at Grand Valley State University.

Ayesha Raees identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Raees currently serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor at AAWW's The Margins and has received fellowships from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, and Kundiman. Raees's first book of poetry, "Coining The Wishing Tower" won the Broken River Prize hosted by Platypus Press and judged by Kaveh Akbar, and will be forthcoming in March 2022. From Lahore, Pakistan, Raees is a graduate of Bennington College, and currently lives in New York City. Her website is: www.ayesharaees.com

Mervyn R. Seivwright has appeared in AGNI Literary Magazine, The Trinity Review (Canada), African American Review, Griffel Literature Review (Norway), Cape Cod Poetry Review, Burningword Literary Journal, INNSÆI Journal (India), Mount Island’s Lucy Terry Prince poetry contest 2nd Runner-Up, and Santa Fe Literary Review 2021 Pushcart Nominee. https://www.clippings.me/mervynseivwright

Brody Lane Shappell is a poet based in Fairbanks, Alaska and is currently studying long-distance as a PhD student at Texas Tech University in the creative writing program. Brody’s work has been published in journals such as Cirque and Southwest Review, and has work forthcoming in Antipodes.

Chris Shorne holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and has work published or forthcoming in Utne, Bennington Review, Portland Review, and Duende. Shorne spent a year as an international human rights accompanier with NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala), living part-time with Ixil genocide survivors in the Cuchumatan mountains.

Martha Silano’s most recent collection is Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Cincinnati Review, Cimarron Review, Carolina Quarterly, Sugar House Review, Image, Sixth Finch, North American Review, and elsewhere. Martha teaches at Bellevue College and Hugo House in Seattle.

MK Sturdevant's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Orion, Newfound, X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, Tiny Molecules, The Lily Poetry Review, The Nashville Review, The Westchester Review, About Place Journal and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Montana Prize in Fiction and was recently nominated for a Pushcart. She lives in the Midwest.

Tori Grant Welhouse’s poems have appeared most recently in HerWords and Chestnut Review, and she was a runner-up for the Princemere Prize. She won Skyrocket Press's 2019 novel-writing contest for her YA fantasy The Fergus and Etching Press’s 2020 poetry chapbook competition for Vaginas Need Air. More at www.torigrantwelhouse.com.

Sharon Whitehill is a retired English professor from West Michigan now living in Port Charlotte, Florida. In addition to poems published in various literary magazines, my publications include two biographies, two memoirs, two poetry chapbooks, and a full collection of poems. I love literature, I loved teaching, but the richness of retirement is getting to do what I yearned to do during the years of reading student writing: devoting myself to my own. Now that's my "work"--all day, every day apart from meetings, appointments, and social pastimes.

John Sibley Williams is the author of The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), and Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize). A twenty-six-time Pushcart nominee and winner of various awards, John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and founder of Caesura Poetry Workshop.