Doug Holder's work has appeared in Rattle, Café Review, the new renaissance, Sahara, Poetica, and many more. He is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press and the arts/editor for The Somerville News. He was recently included in "Inside the Outside." a major anthology of American Avant-Garde American Poets (Presa Press) He holds an M.A. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University.

Joan Houlihan is the founding director of the Concord Poetry Center in Concord, Massachusetts and of the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference. She is Editor-in-chief of the online poetry magazine Perihelion. She is the author of two books: Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays (2003) and The Mending Worm, (2006) winner of the New Issues Press Green Rose Award. Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, and others.

Rodney Wittwer's poetry has appeared in many journals, including The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, DIAGRAM, Diner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Memorious, Pleiades, Ploughshares and Verse Daily. He lives in W. Medford, where he writes and assists his wife, a clothing designer.

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson has had work published in Agni, Field, The Harvard Review, The Boston Phoenix, Mothering, The Antigonish Review, Northwest Review and Verse Daily and others. She is the author of two chapbooks of poetry Admit the Peacock and Inside the Exhibition. Rebecca lives with her husband Charlie in Somerville, Massachusetts and Marlborough, New Hampshire.

Dan Memmolo's poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, New York Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review and Sycamore Review. He has received degrees from Florida State University and the University of Rhode Island, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and son.

Mark Schafer is a literary translator and visual artist who lives in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His translations from Spanish into English include novels, short stories, essays, and poetry by authors such as Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Virgilo Piñera, Jesús Gardea, Eduardo Galeano, and Antonio José Ponte. When not translating, Schafer reassembles the world and questions traditional notions of representation in his map collages.