M.E. Silverman founded Blue Lyra Review. His books include The Floating Door and The Breath before Birds Fly, and he edited three anthologies including Bloomsbury’s Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, The Plume Anthology of Longish Poems, and one on the Holocaust.

Susan Cohen was a Washington Post contributing writer and UC Berkeley journalism professor before studying poetry on a Knight Fellowship at Stanford, then earning an MFA at Pacific University. She’s the author of two books of poems: Throat Singing and A Different Wakeful Animal.

Philip Terman is the author of five books of poetry, including Our Portion: New and Selected Poems. A selection of his poems has been translated into Arabic. He founded the Chautauqua Writers' Festival and teaches at Clarion University, where he directs the visiting writers series.

Patty Seyburn

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet