A Professor of English at Capital Community College in Hartford, CT, Antoinette Brim-Bell is the author of These Women You Gave Me (Indolent Books, 2017); Icarus in Love (Main Street Rag, 2013); and Psalm of the Sunflower (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2010). She is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work appears in various journals, magazines, and anthologies such as Villanelles, Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander, and The Whiskey of Our Discontent: An Anthology of Essays Commemorating Gwendolyn Brooks. 

Amy Dryansky–former Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA–has published two full-length poetry collections: Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry, 2013), which received the Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry; and How I Got Lost So Close to Home (Alice James Books, 1999), which won the New England/New York Award from Alice James Books. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies and journals, including Barrow Street, Harvard Review, New England Review, The Sun, Tin House, and The Women’s Review of Books. Amy has been awarded poetry fellowships from Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is the James Merrill Visiting Poet at Amherst College and the Corporate and Foundation Grants Specialist at the Berkshire Natural Resources Council.

Jennifer Franklin has published two full-length collections, most recently No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). A third book–If Some God Shakes Your House, will be published by Four Way Books in 2023. In 2021, she received a Cafe Royal Foundation Grant in Literature and an NYFA/City Artist Corps Grant in Poetry. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bennington Review, Blackbird, Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, Guernica, JAMA, Los Angeles Review, Love’s Executive Order, The Nation, New England Review, Paris Review, Plume, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Prairie Schooner, and RHINO. For the past nine years, she has taught manuscript revision at Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY, where she runs the reading series and serves as Program Director. She also teaches in the MFA program at Manhattanville College in Harrison, NY.

Gloria Monaghan–a Professor at Wentworth University’s School of Science and Humanities in Boston–has published two chapbooks and three books of poetry. Her chapbooks are Flawed (Finishing Line Press, 2011), nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Torero (Nixes Mate, 2019). Her books include False Spring (Adelaide Books, 2019) and Hydrangea (Kelsay Books, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Blue Max Review, 2River, Adelaide, Aurorean, Chiron, Nixes-Mate, First Literary Review East, Aries, and others. In 2018, her poem, “Into Grace,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 

Dzvinia Orlowsky, a founding editor of Four Way Books, is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and translator. She is the author of six poetry collections, including Bad Harvest (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018), Silvertone (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013), and Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008). Her first collection, A Handful of Bees, was reprinted as a Carnegie Mellon University Classic Contemporary. Her poem sequence, The (Dis)enchanted Desna, was selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky as the 2019 co-winner of the New England Poetry Club Samuel Washington Allen Prize. For her co-translation of the work of Polish poet Mieczysław Jastrun in Memorials: A Selection (Lavender Ink, 2014), she was awarded a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship. Dzvinia is Writer-in-Residence at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing and a contributing poetry editor to Solstice Literary Magazine and Agni.

Anthony Walton–a professor and writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College–is the author of the poetry chapbook Cricket Weather (Blackberry Books, 1995) and the non-fiction work Mississippi: An American Journey (Vintage, 1997). He is also co-editor of The Vintage Book of African American Poetry. His work has appeared widely in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, and Rainbow Darkness.