Marilyn Cox, who lives in Charleston, South Carolina, wrote a poem a day for a year. She is a flautist, a barista, and lived in Japan for a year. A graduate of the University of Washington, she studied journalism and wrote for several newspapers.
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Peggy Turnbull is a retired librarian who was inspired to write poetry when she returned home to the U.S. Midwest after spending decades in Appalachia.•
Solomon Au Yeung is currently an in-service teacher of Hong Kong, working in a village school in a remote area where he primarily teaches language subjects.•
Gail Goepfert is a poet, photographer, teacher, and an associate editor for RHINO Poetry. A Mind on Pain, a first chapbook, was released in 2015. She has two books forthcoming: Tapping Roots from Kelsay Books in 2018 and Get Up Said the World from Červená Barva Press in early 2019.•
Phil Huffy is a reformed lawyer from Rochester, New York. He turned to poetry after years spent hobbying as a songwriter and solo performer. He writes daily at the kitchen table, often with a Maltese on his lap.•
Karla Huston is Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2017-2019, and is author of A Theory of Lipstick, Main Street Rag Publications: 2013, which received a Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award in 2014. She has published eight chapbooks of poetry, most recently Grief Bone which was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Huston won a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Press award in 2011.•
Greg Hill is is a writer and voice over talent in West Hartford, Connecticut, and has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His works have appeared in Atlas and Alice, Black Heart Magazine, CHEAP POP, Life and Legends, Queen Mob’s Teahouse and elsewhere.•
Osadolor Osayande is a Nigerian poet, essayist and storyteller. His poems seek to humanize and elevate consciousness especially on the themes of love, perseverance and courage. Osayande's essays and short-stories have previously been published by the 1888 centre and Okada-books respectively.•