Joan Leotta
Joan Leotta, of Calabash, NC, plays with words on page and stage. In addition to her ten published books, her varied writings have appeared or are forthcoming, in Ekphrastic Review, Pinesong,, Brass Bell, Verse Visual, anti-heroin chic, Silver Birch, Ovunquesiamo, Verse Virtual, Poetry in Plain Sight, and others. She is a 2021 Pushcart nominee and received Best of Micro Fiction in 2021. In early 2022, she was named a runner up in the Frost Foundation Poetry Competition. Her chapbook, Feathers to Stone , which includes the poem, Sycamore Roots, is scheduled for publication at the end of 2022 from Main Street Rag. She performs tales featuring food, family, nature, and strong women.
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ayaz daryl nielsen was born in Valentine, Nebraska, attended schools in Minnesota and Wisconsin, has lived in Monterey, Mexico and Bonn, Germany, and now lives in Longmont, Colorado, with his beloved wife, poet, and analyst, Judith Nielsen. 
Nettie Farris is the author of COMMUNION (Accents Publishing, 2013), FAT CRAYONS (Finishing Line Press, 2015), the micro-chapbook STORY (Origami Poems Project, 2016), and THE WENDY BIRD POEMS (dancing girl press, 2016). She has received the Kudzu Poetry Prize and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences University of Louisville. She writes Book Reviews for MELANCHOLY HYPERBOLE, Reference Essays for Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing, and the Spotlight on a Press feature for BLUE LYRA REVIEW, where she serves as Review Editor.
Donald C. Welch III is a teaching assistant at the Rebecca School for Autism where he runs the Ultimate Crusaders Poetry Workshop. His current project @SocialLit (https://twitter.com/SocialLit) explores new forms of poetry and collaborative writing derived from Social Media. His collection of children’s poetry Who Gave These Flamingos Those Tuxedos? was published by Emerson College's Wilde Press in 2013. 
Bobbi Sinha-Morey's poetry has appeared in a wide variety of places such as Plainsongs, Pirene's Fountain, The Wayfarer, Helix Magazine, Miller's Pond, and Old Red Kimono. Her books of poetry are available at www.Amazon.com. She loves aerobics, knitting, reading, and rock hounding with her husband. 
Regina Green grew up in beautiful southeastern Pennsylvania but now finds herself writing poetry and living outside of Atlanta, Georgia. You can find some of her poems at such nice places as Thistle Magazine Spring 2014 The Courage Issue, One Night Stanzas, Lyre Lyre, Inkscrawl, and BoySlut. Her other interests include reading every single translation of The Iliad available, taking long walks, and cooking. 