ALISA GOLDEN reads a paper newspaper at breakfast, walks her inner dog daily, and edits Star 82 Review while watching birds in Albany, CA. Her art and writing have been published in Triple #22 (Ravenna Press), Blink-Ink, One Sentence Poems, FRiGG, and others. www.neverbook.com & www.star82review.com

ANGELA TOWNSEND is the Development Director at Tabby’s Place: a Cat Sanctuary. She graduated from Princeton Seminary and Vassar College. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Chautauqua, CutBank, Lake Effect, Paris Lit Up, The Penn Review, Pleiades, The Razor, and Terrain.org, among others. Angie has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 33 years, laughs with her poet mother every morning, and loves life affectionately.

ANN N PEDONE is a poet, non-fiction writer, and literary translator. She is the author of The Medea Notebooks (spring, 2023 Etruscan Press), and The Italian Professor’s Wife (2022, Press 53), as well as numerous chapbooks. Her work has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, the Dialogist, Barrow Street, 2River, Tupelo Quarterly, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. Ann has been nominated for Best of the Net, and has appeared as Best American Poetry’s “Pick of the Week”. She graduated from Bard College and has a Master’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Berkeley.

CECIL MORRIS retired after 37 years of teaching high school English, and now he tries writing himself what he spent so many years teaching others to understand and (he hopes) to enjoy. He has poems appearing or forthcoming in The Ekphrastic Review, Hole in the Head Review, Rust + Moth, Sugar House Review, Willawaw Journal, and other literary magazines.