Diane Elayne Dees lives is the author of the chapbooks, Coronary Truth (Kelsay Books), The Last Time I Saw You (Finishing Line Press), and The Wild Parrots of Marigny (Querencia Press). Diane, who lives in Covington, Louisiana, also publishes Women Who Serve, a blog that delivers news and commentary on women’s professional tennis throughout the world. Her author blog is Diane Elayne Dees: Poet and Writer-at-Large. 
Matthew Feinstein is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach with his BA in English Creative Writing. He is applying for an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry.
Gretchen Rockwell is a queer poet and supplemental instructor at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, RI, where xe works with students to develop their writing and rhetorical skills. 
Mary Louise Peters, Wisconsin, is a lifelong poet, finding new audiences, delighting in the metaphor of everyday life. She enjoys all forms of creativity: wife, mother, grandmother, national educational consultant, Courage & Renewal facilitator, educator, and writer. 
William Cullen Jr is a veteran and was born in Petersburg, Virginia. He lived in Alabama, Georgia, and Germany before settling down in Brooklyn, New York, where he works at a social services non-profit. 
Patrice Boyer Claeys graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Manchester, U.K., and completed a Certificate in Poetry from the Writer's Studio of the University of Chicago. Her first collection, "Lovely Daughter of the Shattering," was published by Kelsay Books in 2019.
Karla Linn Merrifield has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the 2019 full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press.
Marsh Muirhead lives on the banks of the Mississippi River, near the source, in northern Minnesota. His work has appeared in Poetry East, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. He has published two collections of haiku – Her Cold Martini, and Last Night of the Carnival – and his haiku have been found engraved in the sidewalk on the Palm Avenue bridge in Key West, on a rock along the Haiku Walk in Millersburg, Ohio, and have been read by Billy Collins on his poetry broadcast several times. Marsh once won the annual Great American Think-Off essay and debate contest addressing the question: “Does Poetry Matter.” He said it did and does.* 2023 Update: Marsh's poem Grief (in microchap 'Noteworthy') was nominated by the Origami Poems Project for the annual Pushcart Prize.