Sanjida Yasmin is a poet, painter and a professional educator living in the Northeast. Sanjida earned her B.A. in English and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the City University of New York.
Joyce Brinkman, Indiana Poet Laureate 2002-2008, believes in poetry as public art. She creates public-poetry projects involving her poetry and the poetry of others. Her poetry is on permanent display in a twenty-five-foot stained glass window in an airport, in lighted glass artwork at a library, and on a wall in the town square of Quezaltepeque, El Salvador. Joyce has received fellowships from the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio, and the Indianapolis Arts Council.
Rosalind Brenner is a poet and painter/ stained glass artist living in East Hampton, NY. Her poetry has appeared in the literary journals: The Arroyo Review, Ontologica, The Cortland Review among others. She is the author of the chapbooks “Omega’s Garden” and “All That’s Left,” and the forthcoming book, “Every Glittering Chimera.” Her paintings have been shown in New York and Chicago. 
Editor Kitty came to prominence when she chose writers as her food attendants. Her love of literature was born from the realization that an open book could provide more than a comfortable place to sleep. Originally from the New England coast, she moved to the Pacific Northwest after one too many cold winters.
Jane Beal, Ph.D., is a poet. Her haiku appear in the Asahi Haikuist, Fireflies’ Light, Frogpond, Haibun Today, Haiku Journal, Illinois Audubon Society Magazine and Presence as well as in her haiku micro-chaps from Origami Poems: Journey, Garden, Bliss, Wide Awake and Dreaming, and In the Santa Cruz Mountains. She is the author of many other poetry collections, including a book of haiku, Haiku Birding, and a book of haibun, Wild Birdsong (2011) and a book of haiga, Tidepools.
Scott Hughes's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Crazyhorse, One Sentence Poems, Entropy, Deep Magic, Carbon Culture Review, Redivider, Redheaded Stepchild, PopMatters, Strange Horizons, Chantwood Magazine, Odd Tales of Wonder, The Haunted Traveler, Exquisite Corpse, Pure Slush, Word Riot, and Compaso: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology.
F.I. Goldhaber's words capture people, places, and events with a photographer's eye and a poet's soul. As a reporter, editor, business writer, and marketing communications consultant, they produced news stories, feature articles, editorial columns, and reviews for newspapers, corporations, governments, and non-profits in five states.
Diane Jackman's poetry has appeared in small press magazines and anthologies, and has won or placed in several competition. Starting as a children’s writer she now concentrates on poetry. She is passionately interested in medieval rabbit warrens and Anglo-Saxon literature.