Melissa Balmain edits Light, North America’s longest-running journal of comic verse, and teaches writing at the University of Rochester. Her poems and/or prose have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Ecotone, The Hopkins Review, Lighten Up Online, Literary Matters, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Nimrod, Poetry Daily, and Rattle. She's the author of three poetry collections, most recently Satan Talks to His Therapist (Paul Dry Books).
Hilary Biehl's poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, Able Muse, Image, and elsewhere. Her poetry collection, Giants Crossing (Kelsay Books, 2025) received the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. She lives in New Mexico.
Marie Burdett is a Florida-based gardener and poet. She is working on her MFA at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Her work has previously been published in New Verse Review, Clayjar Review, and Vernacular.
Lani Burshtein is a schoolteacher living in Toronto, Canada. She has been published in The Horror Zine, The Brazen Head and The Ekphrastic Review. Her favorite poets include Edna St. Vincent Millay, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Crane.
Barbara Lydecker Crane has won the Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Crown Contest, the Helen Schaible Sonnet Contest, and has twice been a Finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Her five published collections include You Will Remember Me (2023, Word Galaxy Press, an imprint of Able Muse Press) and Art & Soul (2025, Kelsay Books). She is at work on a new ekphrastic collection. She lives with her husband in Somerville, MA, and enjoys arts and crafts, travel, and playing games with grandchildren.
Barbara Crooker is author of twelve full-length books of poetry, including Some Glad Morning, Pitt Poetry Series, longlisted for the Julie Suk award from Jacar Press; The Book of Kells, which won the Best Poetry Book of 2019 Award from Poetry by the Sea; and Slow Wreckage (Grayson Books, 2024). Absence is forthcoming in 2027, along with Fierce Burning Joy: New and Selected Poems. Her poems have won many prizes, including the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award.
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of ten poetry collections, a craft book, and four books of nonfiction, including most recently Frivolity: A Defense (Columbia University Press, 2026). Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals, including New England Review, Southern Review, and Ploughshares.
Stevie Edwards is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University and Poetry
Editor of The South Carolina Review. She is the author of The Weather
Inside, Quiet Armor, Sadness Workshop, Humanly, and Good Grief.
Originally a Michigander, she now lives in South Carolina with her spouse
and a small herd of rescue pitbulls. Her work has been supported by Vermont
Studio Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, SAFTA Firefly Farms, and Buinho
Creative Hub.
Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her work can be found in Sundress Publications Best Dressed Blog, Verse Daily, Poet Lore, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rogue Agent, Gargoyle, Unbroken Journal, River Heron Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Putnam County, New York and is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review.
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas recently earned an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her chapbook, Before I Go to Sleep, won the 2012 Red Ochre Press Chapbook Contest. In 2019, An Ode to Hope in the Midst of Pandemonium was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her collection, Alice in Ruby Slippers, was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize in 2021 and received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category. She has served as editor-in-chief for The Orchards Poetry Journal and Tule Review. A thirteen-time Pushcart Prize nominee and seven-time Best of the Net nominee, her work has appeared or is upcoming in the following journals: The Comstock Review, Redactions, and Verse Daily. She has served on the Board of Directors for The Sacramento Poetry Center and Women’s Wisdom Art. Recently, she received a certificate of achievement from the California Writers Club and was named Centennial Poet for her contributions during their 100-year celebration. She is a California Poet-Teacher in the Schools and an Associate Editor at Kelsay Books.
Beth Houston has taught writing (mostly creative writing) at ten universities and colleges in California and Florida and has worked as a writer and editor. She has published a couple hundred poems in dozens of literary journals. She writes free verse and formal poetry, mostly sonnets, and has published a novel, two nonfiction books, and six poetry books (now out of print). She edits the Extreme formal poetry anthologies. www.bethhouston.comwww.rhizomepress.com.
Lynn Levin is a poet and a writer. Her nine books include, most recently, the short story collection House Parties (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) and the poetry collections The Minor Virtues (2020) and Miss Plastique (2013), both with Ragged Sky. Her poems have appeared in Mezzo Cammin, One Art, Boulevard, Think Journal, Smartish Pace, Rattle, and elsewhere. She lives in Bucks County, Pa. Visit her at lynnlevinauthor.com.
Susan McLean has recently published her third poetry book, Daylight Losing Time (Able Muse Press). Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Poets Respond, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City.
Joanna C. Migdal has lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a vibrant artists’ and writers’ colony. While living there, she published a collaborative book of poetry and artworks, My Quicksilver Lover. One of its poems, (Ode to the Cedar Bar) has appeared in Of Burgers and Barrooms. (Main St Rag). Back in NYC, she has recently completed a chapbook (Wild Nights), a collection of centos, a form of patchwork poems. Several of the centos have appeared in recent literary journals. She still has a taste for spicy margaritas that definitely give her courage to keep writing.
Zara Raab grew up in the far west, but for many years has lived north of Boston, part of a poetry community led by Rhina P. Espaillat—the Powow River Poets. Her poems appear in The Hudson Review, Think: A Journal of Fiction, Poetry and Essay, and elsewhere. Her literary reviews and essays appear in Religion and the Arts and New Verse Review.
Leslie Schultz (Northfield, Minnesota; www.winonamedia.net) has six collections of poetry. Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making is her most recent. Her poetry has appeared widely in such journals as Light, Poet Lore, Mezzo Cammin, Midwest Quarterly, Appomattox River Review, Able Muse, Naugatuck River Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Orchards, Pensive, MockingHeart Review. Passages North, and Blue Unicorn. Twice nominated for Pushcart prizes, and with several past sonnet prizes from the international Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, she now serves as a contest judge. She publishes photographs and fiction; makes quilts and soups; and happily mucks about in a garden plagued by shade, rabbits, and walnut trees.
Brittany Vogel is an award-winning, New Jersey-based painter known for her bold color and beautifully expressive line. Her Powerful Women series has struck a chord well beyond the gallery walls, earning inclusion in multiple exhibitions including a Monmouth Museum x Smithsonian Exhibition and coverage in numerous press outlets, including Yahoo! News and feature spreads in TapInto and 07030 Magazine.
Vogel's work lives in public spaces as much as private collections. She created a 12-foot interactive mural, Suffragists Marching, in the Columbus Circle subway station, and has delivered artist talks at the Bruce Museum and the Hoboken Historical Museum. Her achievements include the competitive Merit Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York and features in three consecutive Monmouth Museum Annual Juried Exhibitions. She has mounted solo shows of both her Powerful Women and Order vs. Chaos series in New York City and New Jersey. Her website is www.brittanyvogelart.com/home.
Joyce Wilson is editor of (The Poetry Porch), a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, among them Alabama Literary Review, The Hudson Review, and The Classical Outlook. Her new poetry collection The Morning After Burns Night is just out with Kelsay Books, summer 2026.
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| Brittany Vogel is an award-winning, New Jersey-based painter known for her bold color and beautifully expressive line. Her Powerful Women series has struck a chord well beyond the gallery walls, earning inclusion in multiple exhibitions including a Monmouth Museum x Smithsonian Exhibition and coverage in numerous press outlets, including Yahoo! News and feature spreads in TapInto and 07030 Magazine.
Vogel's work lives in public spaces as much as private collections. She created a 12-foot interactive mural, Suffragists Marching, in the Columbus Circle subway station, and has delivered artist talks at the Bruce Museum and the Hoboken Historical Museum. Her achievements include the competitive Merit Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York and features in three consecutive Monmouth Museum Annual Juried Exhibitions. She has mounted solo shows of both her Powerful Women and Order vs. Chaos series in New York City and New Jersey.
Whether she's covering a subway wall or a canvas, Vogel's aim is the same: command attention from across the room, then reward a closer look with a rich, layered story worth lingering over.
Brittany continues to paint, exhibit, and expand the Powerful Women series from her studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, adding new women and new stories to the collection.
For additional information, please visit www.BrittanyVogelArt.com.
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