Lucille Lang Day is the award-winning author of eleven poetry collections, including Birds of San Pancho; two children’s books; and a memoir. A coeditor of two poetry anthologies, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West, she is the founder and publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books.

Anne Coray’s novel Lost Mountain is a love story inspired by the Pebble Mine project. Author of three poetry collections, her work has appeared in North American Review, Kestrel, Poetry, and AQR. She has received fellowships from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation.

Ruth Nolan, MFA, MA, is the author of Ruby Mountain (poems), editor of No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of CA's Deserts, and coeditor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of CA. She is professor of English, creative writing, and Native American literature at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California.

Eric Paul Shaffer is author of seven poetry volumes, including Even Further West; A Million-Dollar Bill; Lāhaina Noon; and Portable Planet. He received Hawai‘i’s 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature and two Ka Palapala Po‘okela Book Awards. He is a professor at Honolulu Community College.

Ron Welburn (Accomac Cherokee) grew up in Philadelphia and is an emeritus English professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he costarted the Native Studies program. His poems have appeared in over 125 literary outlets, and his seventh poetry book is Council Decisions: Selected Poems, Expanded Edition.