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.

Kate Kennedy is the author of the novel End Over End and the collection of short biographies, Maine’s Remarkable Women. A long-time writing teacher at Portland High School, she later became director of the Southern Maine Writing Project. Her memoir Skin was published by Littoral Books in 2020.

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.

Gillian Burnes’s stories have appeared in Glimmer Train and The Dillydoun Review, and her non-fiction work in Outside, OnEarth, Wilderness, and other magazines. She lives with her husband and daughter on the edge of her in-laws’ organic cattle farm in central Maine. Soft Features is her first novel.