Jeri Theriault’s recent awards include the 2023 Maine Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the 2023 Monson Arts Fellowship, and the 2022 NORward Prize (New Ohio Review). Her poems and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, The Texas Review, The Atlanta Review, The Asheville Review, Plume, and many other publications. Her recent collections are Radost, my red, (M)other, and Self-Portrait as Homestead. She is the editor of WAIT: Poems from the Pandemic. Jeri lives in South Portland, Maine.

Kathleen Sullivan is the co-editor of A Dangerous New World. Her poems also appeared in Balancing Act 2.  She is a clinical social worker and lives in Freeport and Addison.

Jacqueline Moore grew up in Depression-era Greenwich Village, left for Europe in the early ’50s, moved to Ann Arbor in the ’70s, and later to Boston where she studied poetry with Seamus Heaney. She spent many years living off the grid in the Maine woods. Her collection of eco-poetry, Chasing the Grass, was published by Littoral in 2019. Her poems also appear in Balancing Act 2, A Dangerous New World, and Enough!

Claire Millikin is the author of six collections of poetry and the co-editor of Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest published by Littoral in 2020, which won the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Anthologies. Her latest poetry collection is Elegiaca Americana (Littoral Books, 2022).

Gary Lawless has published 18 collections of poetry in the United States and five in Italy. He is the co-owner of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine, and the author, most recently, of How the Stones Came to Venice, published by Littoral Books in 2021.

Agnes Bushell is a writer and editor, the recipient of two Maine Literary Awards, professor emerita in Liberal Arts at Maine College of Art and Design, and co-founder of Littoral Books. Her most recent novel is Monkey.

Katherine Hagopian Berry’s first collection of poetry, Mast Year, was published by Littoral in 2020. Her poetry has also appeared in Café Review, Frost Meadow Review, and in Balancing Act 2, Enough!, and Wait. She lives in Bridgton, Maine.