Jo Pitkin is the author of The Measure; Cradle of the American Circus: Poems from Somers, New York; the forthcoming Commonplace Invasions; and more than 40 books for K through Grade 12 students.

Maria Theresa Stadtmueller's environmental essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Utne Reader, and Dark Mountain Journal. She writes for Middlebury College.

Jane Summer is the author of the novel The Silk Road. Her poetry and short fiction appear in publications such as Ploughshares, Spoon River Poetry Review, Yalobusha Review, Left Curve, North Atlantic Review, Porcupine, North Dakota Quarterly, Portland Review, and Oregon East.

Nin Andrews is the author of five chapbooks and five full-length poetry collections. She has won two Ohio individual artist grants, the Pearl Chapbook Contest, the Kent State University chapbook contest, and the Gerald Cable Poetry Award. Her next book, Why God Is a Woman, is due out in 2015.

Gwynn O’Gara has taught with California Poets in the Schools for over twenty years. Her books include Snake Woman Poems, Fixer-Upper, and Winter at Green Haven. She regularly recites poetry of the ecstatic tradition with the troupe Rumi’s Caravan and was Sonoma County Poet Laureate 2010-2012.