Dave Patterson, author of Euphoria: Ten Maine Stories, holds an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. A winner of the Bread Loaf Freeman Fiction Award and a Maine Literary Award for Short Fiction, his stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in Salon, Slice Magazine, Hot Metal Bridge, Maine Magazine, The Masters Review, among others. He is the author of the novel, Soon the Light Will be Perfect, which the New York Public Library declared, “Devastating, beautiful, worth it.” He lives in Cape Elizabeth with his wife and two children.

Christian Barter is a poet working and writing in Bar Harbor, Maine.  For the past thirty-five years, he has worked for the National Park Service at Acadia National Park as a trail crew supervisor, project manager, arborist, heavy equipment operator, dry stone mason, and specialist in park matters related to Americans with disabilities. He has published three previous collections of poetry, and has served as the Poet Laureate of Acadia National Park and as a Hodder Fellow in Creative Writing at Princeton University. His poems have been published in Ploughshares, Tin House, New Letters, Georgia Review, The American Scholar and Downeast and featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writers Almanac, and on the websites of the PBS Newshour and The Academy of American Poets. He recently released an album of original songs using text from Tennyson’s “In Memoriam, A.H.H.”