Sophia Conway is an Irish storyteller and poet residing on Vancouver Island, Canada, with her husband and son. Her poetry has been published in several journals and anthologies, and she enjoys sharing her love of poetry through spoken-word performances, poetry film festivals, and workshops. Her work is inspired by nature, the human experience, and her faith.
John Robinson is a mainstream, American poet from the Kanawha Valley in Mason County, West Virginia. His 165 literary works have appeared in 115 journals throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Poland, Germany and China. He is also a published printmaker with 101 art images and photographs appearing in forty journals, electronic and print, in the United States, Italy, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Recent Work; Pennsylvania English, Xavier Review, North Dakota Quarterly. Talking River Review, Revolution John and Language, and Semiotic Studies.
Beth Fournier is a native of Massachusetts and a former high school counselor. At the age of twenty-six she was suddenly stricken and diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a severe neurological condition. This left her paralyzed and blind. She now lives in a long-term care facility in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She enjoys audiobooks, painting, and singing. Music and the memory of sunflowers lift her spirits.
Ronda Piszk Broatch is the author of Chaos Theory for Beginners (Moonpath Press, 2023), Finalist for the Sally Albiso Prize, and Lake of Fallen Constellations, (Moonpath Press). She is the recipient of an Artist Trust Gap Grant.
Jennifer Ann Dennehy lives in Colorado with her family, cats, great horned owls, and the occasional fox. She spends a bit of time re-creating lawns as prairies and routing for migrating birds.
Jessie Raymundo is an educator and poet from the Philippines. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Failbetter, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Singapore Unbound's SUSPECT and elsewhere.
B. J. Buckley is a Montana poet and writer who has taught in Arts-in-Schools & Communities programs throughout the West and Midwest for nearly five decades. Her chapbook, "In January, the Geese", won the 35th Anniversary Comstock Review Poetry Chapbook Prize.
Mary Ellen Talley's poems have been published in journals such as Banshee, Gyroscope, and Ekphrastic Review as well as in anthologies such as Raising Lilly Ledbetter and Sing the Salmon Home. Her poems have received three Pushcart nominations. A chapbook, “Postcards from the Lilac City” was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020 and a forthcoming collection will be published by Kelsay Press.