Storyteller and writer, Luray Gross is a Bucks County Poet Laureate and co-chair of the Volta Center for Writing Arts. Dodge poet and faculty member of Murphy Writing of Stockton University, she was named a Distinguished Teaching Artist by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Known for her engaging teaching style, she works with students ranging in age from three to eighty-three. Her most recent volume of poetry is With This Body by Ragged Sky Press.

Steve Shelley decided in college that he wanted to be a poet. He has written steadily ever since he established himself as a psychologist in his late thirties. His new (and only) book, Testament, available on Amazon, contains the best of his poems over the last 40 years.  Individual poems have appeared in Schuylkill Valley Journal, Atlanta Review, Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere.  Shelley lives outside Philadelphia and volunteers as a guide at the Philadelphia Art Museum. 

John Timpane is the former Books Editor and Theater Critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has appeared in Sequoia, Apiary, Cleaver, Painted Bride Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Vocabula Review, Tiferet, and elsewhere, and in two chapbooks, Burning Bush (Judith Fitzgerald, 2010) and Buck in the Piano Room (Moonstone, 2023). He is working on a second edition of Poetry for Dummies (he coauthored the first in 2000), scheduled to appear in April 2026. He lives in New Jersey.

Janet McClelland has written poetry off and on since she was able to form letters. Her first poem: “Leaves here. / Leaves there. / Leaves everywhere.” She writes, “I know, so young and so talented.  I have always recognized that ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ and I enjoy words; thus a poet is formed.” She’s looking forward to seeing which poems hold up.