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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely.

Marguerite Harrold is a Chicagoan. She works in Public Health. She is also a Naturalist. What she’s learned in over 20 years of doing HIV Prevention work is that people are complicated and compassion goes a long way toward accepting our collective humanity, including the mess-ups. Nature and Poetry helps her sort through it all.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a poet from Perth, Western Australia. Visit www.facebook.com/scottpatrickmitchellpoet for more information.

Sergio A. Ortiz is the founding editor of Undertow Tanka Review. He is a two time Pushcart nominee, a four time Best of the Web nominee, and a 2016 Best of the Net nominee. His poems have been published in hundreds Journals and Anthologies. He is currently working on his first full length collection of poems, Elephant Graveyard.

Bekah Steimel is a poet aspiring to be a better poet. Her recent work has appeared in W.I.S.H. Poetry, Crab Fat Magazine, and Yellow Chair Review. She lives in St. Louis, MO (USA) and can be found online at bekahsteimel.com and followed on Twitter and Instagram @BekahSteimel..

Robert Walicki's work has appeared in a number of journals including, The Kentucky Review,and Red River Review.He currently has two chapbooks published: A Room Full of Trees (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and The Almost Sound of Snow Falling (Night Ballet Press, 2015).