Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Queen of Queens and My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), awarded an Honorable Mention from the Italian-American Studies Association, selected as a “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and named as a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. She is also the author of the chapbooks All Things are Born To Change Their Shapes, winner of the Small Harbor Press open reading and After Bird, winner of the Grey Book Press open reading. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Poetry, The Tahoma Literary Review, Jet Fuel Review, Verse Daily, Iron Horse Review (winner of the Photo Finish contest), and elsewhere. Jennifer Martelli has twice received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her poetry. She is co-poetry editor for Mom Egg Review.

Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, Notes from the Column of Memory, was published in September 2022 by Terrapin Books. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, J Journal, Lily Poetry Review, Nimrod, Pangyrus, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Solstice, Sugar House, The Atlanta Review, The Mid-American Review, The Hudson Review, The Threepenny Review, and the Valparaiso Poetry Review, among others. She’s been the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, since 2018, and is programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club.

Susan Donnelly’s newest poetry collection is The Maureen Papers and Other Poems.  Its title poem sequence was 2019 co-winner of the Samuel Washington Allen Award from the New England Poetry Club.  The author of Capture the Flag, Transit, Eve Names the Animals, and six chapbooks, she has published in The New Yorker, Poetry, Agni, Prairie Schooner, and in many other journals, anthologies, textbooks, and online.  Her poetry was recently included in an anthology, Poets Meet Politics, chosen from a 2022 competition sponsored by Hungry Hill Writing of Cork, Ireland.  Other new work is forthcoming in Poetry East, U.S. Catholic, and Main Street Rag.  Susan grew up in Brookline, graduating from the Heath School and then from Holy Cross Academy on Boylston Street.  She is a member of a large extended family, who regularly gathered at her grandparents’ house on Chestnut Hill Avenue.  Many of her poems reflect these places and personalities.  Susan now teaches poetry classes and offers individual consultations from her home in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Charles Coe is the author of three books of poetry: All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents, Picnic on the Moon, and Memento Mori, all published by Leapfrog Press. A fourth volume, Purgatory Road, will be released by Leapfrog in Spring of 2023. He is also author of Spin Cycles, a novella published by Gemma Media. Charles was selected as a Boston Literary Light by the Associates of the Boston Public Library and is a former artist fellow at the St. Botolph Club in Boston. A short film by filmmaker Roberto Mighty, “Peach Pie,” based on his poem, “Fortress,” has been shown at film festivals nationwide. Another short film, “Charles Coe: Man of Letters,” also by Roberto Mighty was named “Outstanding Documentary Short” at the 2020 Roxbury Film Festival. Charles has served as poet-in-residence at Wheaton College, the Newton Public Schools, and at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State. He is an adjunct professor of English at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, and Bay Path University, in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where he teaches in both MFA programs.

SARAH AUDSLEY, a Korean American adoptee raised in rural Vermont, has received support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre’s Writing Studio, and the Vermont Arts Council. Her work appears in New England Review, The Cortland Review, Four Way Review, The Massachusetts Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Pleiades, and elsewhere. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a member of The Starlings Collective, she lives and works in Johnson, VT where she serves as the Writing Program Manager at Vermont Studio Center. LANDLOCK X, a debut poetry collection, will be published by Texas Review Press in spring 2023.