Cristina Deptula, formerly a science and technology reporter, founded and currently edits the international literary publication Synchronized Chaos. She also founded literary publicity firm Authors, Large and Small in 2013, providing affordable traditional and social media services.

Gail Newman, child of Holocaust survivors, was born after WW II in a displaced persons camp. Her new collection, Blood Memory, chosen by Marge Piercy for The Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, was published in 2020. The book won the NCPA Gold Award for Poetry. Gail teaches genocide poetry for educators and students.

Dean Rader has written, edited, or coedited eleven books, including Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.

Roger Reeves’s first book of poems is King Me. He has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a 2013 NEA Fellowship. His next book of poems, Best Barbarian, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

Lorna Dee Cervantes is the author of six books of poetry, including the bestselling Emplumada. Former director of creative writing and associate professor of English at University of Colorado Boulder where she taught creative writing for nineteen years, Cervantes recently relocated to the Pacific Northwest and writes in Seattle.