Darrell Petska is a retired engineering editor and a 2021 Pushcart Prize nominee. His poetry and fiction can be found in 3rd Wednesday Magazine, Nixes Mate Review, Verse Virtual, POETiCA REViEW and widely elsewhere (conservancies.wordpress.com). A father of five and grandfather of six, he lives near Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife of more than 50 years.
Ellene Glenn Moore is a writer living in sunny South Florida. Her poetry has appeared in Lake Effect, Best New Poets, Caliban, The Journal, and others, and her prose has appeared in Brevity, Fjords Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Ellene earned her MFA in creative writing at Florida International University, where she held a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship in Poetry.
Diane Elayne Dees 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.