Kathleen Flenniken is the 2012-2014 Washington State Poet Laureate, and the author of two books of poetry, Famous, and Plume, a meditation on the Hanford Nuclear Site in eastern Washington State, finalist for the 2013 William Carlos Williams Award. She is an editor at Floating Bridge Press.

Nancy Pagh has authored one book of nonfiction (At Home Afloat) and two collections of poetry (No Sweeter Fat, After). She is the recipient of Artist Trust and D.H. Lawrence fellowships and Whiteley Center and Port Townsend Writers’ Conference residencies. She teaches writing at Western Washington University.

Molly Tenenbaum is the author of three books of poetry: By a Thread, Now, and The Cupboard Artist. Honors include a Hedgebrook residency, a GAP grant, and a 2009 Artist Trust Fellowship. She teaches at North Seattle Community College.

Dennis Caswell is the author of the full-length poetry collection Phlogiston and has appeared in Floating Bridge Review, Crab Creek Review, Monarch Review, and other journals and anthologies.

Timothy Kelly has four poetry collections, including Stronger, which won the 1999 Field Poetry Prize. He works as a Physical Therapist, and his work reflects a longstanding fascination with the body, its resilience, and capacity to heal.