Darcy Smith’s debut collection, River Skin, Fernwood Press June 2022, was a semifinalist for the Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Recent poems appear and are forthcoming in River Heron Review, Silver Birch Press, After Happy Hour, Metonym, and Songs Of Eretz. Awards include the Please See Me Mental Health Poetry Prize and the Medmic Poetry Prize. She is a Certified Sign Language Interpreter, Buddhist, kickboxer, wife, and mother. Smith lives with her husband and their cat, Miley, in New York’s Hudson Valley. For more information visit: www.darcysmith.org

Barbara Ungar’s sixth book, After Naming the Animals, has just been published by The Word Works. Prior books include Save Our Ship, which won the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Poetry Prize; Immortal Medusa, and Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life. She has published recently in Scientific American, Crazyhorse, and Gargoyle. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian. The Standish Chair in English at The College of Saint Rose, she lives in Saratoga Springs, New York. www.barbaraungar.net

Roger Mitchell is the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently As Water Moves, (Dos Madres Press, 2023). His new and selected poems, Lemon Peeled the Moment Before, was published by Ausable Press in 2008 and won the Adirondack Center for Writing’s “Readers’ Choice Award.’ The University of Akron Press published his two previous books, Half/Mask, in 2007 and Delicate Bait, which Charles Simic chose for the Akron Prize, in 2003. Other recognition for his writing includes the Midland Poetry Award, the John Ben Snow Award for Clear Pond, a work of nonfiction, plus fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Currently, he is writing a biography of the poet, Jean Garrigue. He and his wife, the fiction writer, Dorian Gossy, live in Jay, New York.