Skip Renker has retired to Petoskey, Michigan after working for many years as an English Professor at Delta College. His poems have been published in numerous journals as well as three books. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Matt W Miller is the author of Tender the River, winner of the Independent Publishers of New England Book Award, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. Other books include The Wounded for the Water, Club Icarus, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and Cameo Diner. He was a winner of Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, the Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize. A former Walter E Dakin Fellow and Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, he lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire.

KELLY GRACE THOMAS is a poet, writer, educator, and an ocean-obsessed Aries from Jersey. She is the author of Future Tense (forthcoming from Alice James Books, 2026) and Boat Burned (YesYes Books, 2020). She is the winner of the Jane Underwood Poetry Prize and the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. Kelly’s poems have appeared in: The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, 32 Poems, Los Angeles Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. www.kellygracethomas.com

Mitch Browne is a poet and bricklayer from the Blue Mountains in Australia. His work has been published in JAMA, Quadrant, ZineWest, Grieve Project and the Sydney Morning Herald.