Carter McKenzie is the author of a chapbook of poetry Naming Departure and a full-length book of poetry Out of Refusal. A founding member of the poetry collective Airlie Press, she has taught creative writing workshops with an emphasis on poetry to middle school and high school students since 2004.

Donna Henderson is the author of three collections of poems, including most recently The Eddy Fence, which was a finalist for the 2011 Oregon Book Award in poetry. She is a founding member and editor of Airlie Press.

Terry Ehret is the author of Lost Body, Translations from the Human Language, Lucky Break, and Night Sky Journey. She is one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers poetry publishing collective, and from 2004-2006, she served as poet laureate of Sonoma County where she teaches writing.

Murray Silverstein's second collection of poetry, Master of Leaves, is forthcoming. He was executive editor of The Place That Inhabits Us, Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. A practicing architect, he is co-author of A Pattern Language and Patterns of Home.

Annie Lighthart is a member and editor of Airlie Press, and the author of the poetry collection Iron String. She earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has taught at Boston College, as a poet in the schools, and for many community groups.