C.T. Holte grew up in Minnesota without color TV; has had gigs as teacher, editor, and less wordy things; recently moved from California to New Mexico with his beautiful partner; and got a cool chain saw for Christmas. His poems have been published in Words, California Quarterly, Shark Reef, Pensive, The Daily Drunk, Mediterranean Poetry, and elsewhere.
Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 400 journals on six continents; and 23 collections of poetry – including In The Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023) and Chaco Dreams (Origami Poems Project, 2022). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and has been thrice nominated for the Best of the Net. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist and poet, who serves as a chief editor for Authora Australis. She holds a Masters in English and is a member of The North Shore Poetry Project. Her art and poetry have been published in both print and online journals and anthologies including The Eunoia Review, The Ekphrastic Review, River and South Review, Bracken Magazine, and Black Bough Poetry. She won the 66th Moon Prize awarded by Writing in a Woman's Voice Journal, and an Honourable Mention in the Glass Poetry Awards 2020.Find her @oormilaprahlad and www.instagram.com/oormila_paintings
Elle Ward was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. She’s a journalist and translator writing for several magazines about international news and social issues. Her interest in poetry and fiction started at a young age, when her dad would read her Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry before bed.
The Poemsmiths, a writing and performance group of ten poets that began in 2016, are one of many critique groups of the High Desert California Writers Club. Each poet has read individually, and we have performed as a group at such venues as the local High Desert Cultural Center. Confined by the COVID-19 virus, we discovered The Mondo form in which the first verse of three lines, a question, is written by one poet and answered by another in the second verse. The Poemsmiths tried out the form before opening up the exercise to the wider HDCWC club. Mary Langer Thompson is founder of the Poemsmiths. 
Virginia Aronson is the Director of Food and Nutrition Resources Foundation. She is the author/coauthor of more than 40 published books. Her novel about food and climate change, A Garden on Top of the World, was published by Dixi Books (London, 2019). Dixi also published Mottainai: A Journey in Search of the Zero Waste Life. In 2021, Adelaide Books will release Bull Sugar: A Not So Sweet Novel about the sugar industry. Visit at fnrfoundation.org.
Connor Orrico is a medical student and amateur field recordist interested in global health, mental health, and how we make meaning from the stories of person and place we share with each other, themes which are explored in his words in The Collidescope, Burning House Press, and hedgerow, as well as his sounds at Bivouac Recording.
Elizabeth Spencer Spragins is a poet and writer who taught in community colleges for more than a decade. Her work has been published extensively in Europe, Asia, and North America.