Karla Linn Merrifield
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.In early 2021, her Half a World of Kisses will be published by Truth Serum Press (Australia) under its new Lindauer Poets imprint. She is currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY).
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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.
Emma Wang is an 18-year-old writer born in Xi’an, China but currently attends Indian Springs School in Alabama. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Arts and Writing awards, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, TRACK//FOUR, Canvas Literary Journal, Fictional Café, The Harpoon Review, Blue Marble Review, What Are Birds, and more. She founded and co-runs the Goya Writer’s Workshop, an international online workshop for young writers. She reads for Polyphony Lit and serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Mire.
Cheryl Caesar is a poet and a writing teacher. She's found that haiku can be a fun and effective way to take verbal snapshots: walking down the street, in the park or through the pet shop. The last location inspired the haiku series presented here.
Robert Epstein, a psychotherapist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a haiku anthologist as well as a haiku poet. His latest anthology is, All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku and his most recent book of haiku is, Turning the Page to Old: Haiku & Senryu. 
Dmitry Blizniuk is an author from Ukraine. His most recent poems have appeared The Pinch Journal, River Poets , Dream Catcher, Magma, Press53, Sheila Na Gig, Palm Beach Poetry Festival and many others. Dmitry Blizniuk is the author of "The Red Fоrest" (Fowlpox press, Canada 2018).
Nikhil Parekh (born 27 August 1977) is a poet and author from Ahmedabad, India. He is a 10-time National Record holder for his poetry with the Limca Book of Records India; which is India’s Best Book of Records, Ranked 2nd in the World officially to Guinness Book of World Records.
Glenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California where he hosts Clearly Meant, a reading & interview series. He has two chapbooks, City Walks (broken boulder) and Fact (Avantacular).