Amy Turn Sharp is a poet, mother of three, and art gallery owner in Columbus, Ohio. Her career in tech and advertising has put her words across billboards, corporate UX, and even the packaging your favorite burgers come in. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Big Mess, Meredith Corporation magazines, The Ohio State University Press, Pithead Chapel, Mutha Magazine, and elsewhere. Sharp is writing the foreword for the 2026 anthology titled "Adventures."

Ashley Allen was a teacher at Green Elementary. Today she is a Licensed Brain Health Trainer, owner of SustainaBrain, author of two children's books titled The Number Mountain and Saving Odin, speaker, and real estate appraiser for STP Appraisal Services. She helps inspire others to love their brain and live a life full of brain-healthy possibilities. Allen wrote the foreword for the 2025 anthology titled "Hope."

Tezlyn Kraft Reardon graduated from LHS in 1994. She played basketball for the University of Massachusetts Amherst for five years and earned a double major in sports management and creative writing. In 2017, she published her first novel titled "Forty Years of Practice: Finding Purpose in Pain." Tez wrote the foreword for the 2024 anthology titled "Heroes."

Jane Ann Devol Fuller is a poet based and raised in southeastern Ohio, rural Appalachia. She is a recipient of the James Boatwright III Poetry Prize. Her full-length poetry manuscript Half-Life (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2021) was a finalist for the 16th annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Jane Ann wrote the foreword for the 2023 anthology titled "New Beginnings."