Carol Edwards is a northern California native transplanted to southern Arizona. She lives and works in relative seclusion with her books, plants, and pets (2 dogs, 5 cats, + husband). She grew up longing for the fantasy worlds of C.S. Lewis, Peter Beagle, and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Her recent poetry inspirations include Emily Dickinson, Robert Bly, and George Herbert. She has one poem published in Space & Time Magazine Issue #140.
Tom Montag's books of poetry include: Making Hay & Other Poems; Middle Ground; The Big Book of Ben Zen; In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013; This Wrecked World; The Miles No One Wants; Imagination's Place; Love Poems; and Seventy at Seventy. His poem 'Lecturing My Daughter in Her First Fall Rain' has been permanently incorporated into the design of the Milwaukee Convention Center.
He blogs at The Middlewesterner. With David Graham he recently co-edited Local News: Poetry About Small Towns.
Carl 'Papa' Palmer of Ridgeway, Virginia, lives in University Place, Washington. He is retired from the military and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enjoying life as Papa to his grand descendants and being a Franciscan Hospice volunteer.
Carl is a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and Micro Award nominee.
Sonia Beauchamp is a massage therapist on the North Shore of Oahu. Her poetry and art have appeared most recently in Literary Mama, Sad Girl Review, and Typehouse Literary Magazine. You can often find her surrounded by feral chickens in her backyard.
Find out more at http://www.soniakb.com.
(She discovered the OPP through her professor, Melanie Faith.)
Robert Hirschfield is a New York-based poet whose poems appear in many countries (US, Japan, Germany, UK, Ireland and Canada.) A very short Alzheimer's poem about his mother, Her Alzheimer's is the subject of most of his poetry, which appears in Salamander, Noon (Japan), Vallum (Canada), Cholla Needlles (US), The Moth (Ireland), The Wild Word (Germany) and other publications.
S. Rupsha Mitra is a writer from India with a penchant for everything creative. Her works can be found in literary magazines including Pif, opia, Fly on the Wall Press.
Visit her website: www.srupshapoetry.com.
Gloria Heffernan is the author of the poetry collection, What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List, (New York Quarterly Books). She has written two chapbooks: Hail to the Symptom (Moonstone Press) and Some of Our Parts, (Finishing Line Press).
Her work has appeared in over fifty journals including Anchor, Chautauqua, Magma (UK), Stone Canoe, Columbia Review, and The Healing Muse. She teaches at Le Moyne College and the Syracuse YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center.
Craig Kittner has lived a lot of places. Fourteen at last count. Providence saw the start of interesting things that DC helped solidify. He found expression through acting and painting over the years but has settled nicely into poetry since 2016. His work has recently appeared in Acorn, bottle rockets, Sledgehammer Lit, the Origami Poems Project, and The Main Street Rag, among others.
Wilmington, North Carolina is home now. It's kind of near the sea and full of light when the rain isn't falling. A good place to ramble and write. Craig is fond of birds, cats, and rain, but rarely writes of cats.