Tobey Kaplan, a Cal Poets in the Schools poet-teacher in in the SF Bay Area for over forty years also teaches part-time at several East Bay /SF community colleges. As an education mentor, Ms. Kaplan continues her commitment to the primacy of imaginative language.

Tehmina Khan is a poet who has taught science to preschoolers and English to octogenarians; along the way, she's picked up some new words. She now teaches writing and literature at City College of San Francisco and in San Francisco public schools.

Audrey Larkin is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. She is interested in 19th and 20th-century Mexican travel writing and border literature. Her other interests include poetry and literary translation.

Arlyn Miller teaches expressive writing in schools and community venues in the Chicagoland area, working with learners of all ages and abilities. A published writer of poetry, articles, essays, and a mixed media artist, she is the Editor of Poetic License Press and chairs CalPoets Advisory Council.

Caroline Woods-Mejia graduated from UCSC in 2018 with a BA in Literature and a concentration in Creative Writing. She began writing and translating poetry with John Oliver Simon in the second grade. Now, she continues this tradition by working with students to participate in joyful acts of writing.