Alec Hershman lives in Bangkok, Thailand. He has received awards from the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts, The Jentel Foundation, The St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, and The Institute for Sustainable Living, Art, and Natural Design. More of his work appears in forthcoming issues of Cimarron Review, Western Humanities Review, The Adroit Journal, Bodega, and Cleaver Magazine. More at alechershmanpoetry.com.

Bruce Bennett is the author of nine books of poetry and more than two dozen poetry chapbooks. Recent chapbooks include The Wither’d Sedge (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and Swimming in a Watering Can (FootHills Publishing, 2014). He was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2012. In June 2014 he retired from teaching at Wells College and is now Professor Emeritus of English. In July 2015 he received the first annual Writing the Rockies Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Creative Writing. Poems of his have appeared recently in Stone Canoe, Light, The Healing Muse, Tar River Poetry, Think, and Able Muse.

Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Unattached Male (Poetry Salzburg, 2014).

Kathryn Kirkpatrick lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where she is a Professor of English at Appalachian State University. She has a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University, where she received an Academy of American Poets poetry prize.  Her poetry collections include The Body’s Horizon (1996), which was selected by Alicia Ostriker for the NC Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell award; Beyond Reason (2004), which was awarded the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association; Out of the Garden (2007), which was a finalist for the Southern Independent Booksellers Association poetry award; Unaccountable Weather (2011); Our Held Animal Breath (2012) which was selected by Chard DeNiord for the Brockman-Campbell Award; and Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful (2014), selected by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda for the Brockman-Campbell Award.  She has held writing residencies at Norton Island in Maine and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. Her long poem about Maud Gonne in six voices was performed in 2013 as part of the Yeats Summer School festivities in Sligo, Ireland. As a literary scholar in Irish studies and the environmental humanities, she has published essays on class trauma, eco-feminist poetics, and animal studies.

Jane Ellen Glasser’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as Hudson Review, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest. Her poems have garnered numerous awards from the Irene Leache Society, Puddingstone, and the Poetry Society of Virginia, and she has been recognized for outstanding articles on teaching poetry that were featured in Virginia English Bulletin and English Journal. In the past she reviewed poetry books for the Virginian-Pilot, edited poetry for the Ghent Quarterly and Lady Jane’s Miscellany, and co-founded the nonprofit arts organization and journal New Virginia Review. A first collection of her poetry, Naming the Darkness, with an introduction by W.D. Snodgrass, was issued by Road Publishers in 1991. She won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry 2005, and her award-winning book, Light Persists, published by Tampa University Press in April 2006, received an honorable mention in the 2007 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Her chapbook On the Corner of Yesterday, published in 2010, was followed by The Long Life, which won the Poetica Publishing Company Chapbook Contest 2011 and was released in December 2011. Her collection The Red Coat, published in 2013, is available from FutureCycle Press, which also published the chapbook Cracks in 2015. Her work may be previewed on her website: www.janeellenglasser.com

Martha Zweig’s collections include Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010), What Kind (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), Vinegar Bone (Wesleyan University Press, 1999), and Powers (l976), a chapbook from the Vermont Arts Council. She has received Hopwood and Whiting awards. Her poems are widely published; three were featured in Poetry. Her MFA is from Warren Wilson College.

Richard Lee Zuras was born and raised in Virginia, and earned his BA at George Mason University. He earned his MFA as the McNeese Fellow under the auspices of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, before doing Ph.D. work in North Dakota under the late poet Jay Meek. His work has been published in South Dakota Review, Weber Studies, Passages North, Confrontation, Red Rock Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Big Muddy, Xavier Review, Story Quarterly, Confrontation, Laurel Review, Lake Effect, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere. He has held scholarships at Bread Loaf and Wesleyan University, and has garnered a Yemassee Award. Currently, Richard is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where he lives with his wife, two sons, and a red Siberian Husky.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain (River Otter Press, 2013). For more information, including free e-books and his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities,” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.

G.H. Mosson is the author of two books of poetry, Questions of Fire (Plain View, 2009) and Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River, 2007). His poetry and literary commentary have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Smartish Pace, Unsplendid, Measure, The Potomac Review, and has been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has an MA from The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where he was a teaching fellow and lecturer, 2003-2005. He lives in Maryland with his family.

Oliver Rice’s poems appear widely in journals and anthologies in the United States and abroad. Creekwalker released an interview with him in January 2010. His book of poems, On Consenting to Be a Man, is published by Cyberwit and available on Amazon. His online chapbook, Afterthoughts, Siestas, and his recording of his Institute for Higher Study appeared in Mudlark in December 2010.

Robert Joe Stout is a freelance journalist and currently resides in Oaxaca, Mexico. His essays, fiction, and poetry appear in a wide variety of commercial and literary magazines.

Elise Hempel’s poems have appeared in many places over the years, including Able Muse, Measure, Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry.  Her chapbook Only Child was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014.  She is the winner of the 2015 Able Muse Write Prize in Poetry.

Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA from 2013-2016. She is the author of Wild Place (Finishing Line Press, 2012) and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets (PushPen Press, 2014). Erica teaches poetry workshops and works as a Development Director for California Poets in the Schools. Her poems, reviews, and articles appear widely. Please visit her at: www.ericagoss.com.

Philip Dacey’s latest of thirteen books is Church of the Adagio (Rain Mountain Press, 2014). He appears in Scribner's Best American Poetry 2014. Winner of three Pushcart Prizes, Dacey has published whole volumes of poems about Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Eakins, and New York City. With David Jauss, he co-edited Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (HarperCollins, 1986).

Michael Jones teaches at Oakland High School in Oakland, CA. His work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and DMQ Review, and has been reprinted in Southern Poetry Review’s anthology, “Poets of the West.”