Leonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems, including Ain’t NoAngel Gonna Greet Me; The Long Way Home; Take Your Hand Out of MyPocket, Shiva; and The Paris Poems of Jim Morrison. His poems haveappeared in Field, Poet Lore, Verse Daily, Fence, Poetry Northwest,American Poetry Review, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of AmericanSpiritual Poetry, and The Best American Poetry (edited by Paul Muldoon).

Jane Edna Mohler is the 2020 Bucks County Poet Laureate (PA), winnerof the 2016 Main Street Voices. She was nominated multiple times for a Pushcart, once for Best of the Net, and placed second in the 2023 Crossroads Contest. Recent publications include Gargoyle, One Art, and Verse Virtual. Her collections, Broken Umbrellas (2019) and Autumn Clears (2025) were both published by Kelsay Books. She is Poetry Editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal. www.janeednamohler.com

Glenn McLaughlin is a semi-retired high school science teacher and the2013 Montco Poet Laureate. A handful of journals have published several of his poems, but he was most happy to have his poem, "The Scalar Nature of Snow," published by Scientific American Magazine and his poetry collection, Forms of Lectio, selected as a finalist for The Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry. He resides in Pottstown, PA with his spouse, Susan, their dog, Max, and cat, George, while two daughters and five granddaughters live nearby.

Fran Gilmore is an activist, artist and poet, long retired from her work as an industrial hygienist. She has been a teacher in many settings, including high school (biology), a prison (emotional healing), labor unions (health and safety) and community settings (racism). She has been published in American Writing, Charlotte Poetry Review, Anthology Philly and other journals, and in an anthology, We Used to be Wives: Divorce Unveiled Through Poetry. She self-published a chapbook, Then Jumped.