Katharine Whitcomb is the co-editor of A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology, and the author of three poetry collections: Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, Hosannas, and Lamp of Letters. Her poetry awards include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.

Elizabeth Austen’s poetry collection Every Dress a Decision was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She is the literary producer for NPR-affiliate KUOW 94.9, and was the 2007 Washington State Roadshow Poet. She earned an MFA at Antioch University LA and teaches at Richard Hugo House.

Alice Derry’s newest collection is Tremolo. Among her other volumes are Stages of Twilight and Strangers to Their Courage. She is Professor Emeritus at Peninsula College in Port Angeles. For thirty years she was the driving force behind the college’s Foothills Writers’ Series.

Christianne Balk’s books include Desiring Flight and Bindweed. Her poems published in Alhambra Poetry Calendar, Atlantic monthly, Crazyhorse, and New Republic. Honors include the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner, and Verna Emery Book Prize from Purdue University.