Brian is a Bath native in his thirty-second year of teaching English at Morse High School. Brian created the Poetry elective at Morse and has emceed numerous Poetry Slams and Poetry Out Loud competitions. Over years of writing instruction across fiction and research to college application essays, Brian is proud to have shepherded Bath’s brightest young minds through some of their formative years in literature.

Deb is an experienced writer and editor whose background includes reporting for an award-winning weekly newspaper on Cape Cod, editing a regional lifestyle magazine, contributing to a business magazine, heading an arts and entertainment section for a chain of weekly newspapers and handling public relations for a nonprofit organization. While working as an assistant to the editor of a young adult book publisher, she was involved with selecting manuscripts and worked with authors on developmental editing. She currently works as a copy editor and writes fiction in her spare time, now working on what she fervently hopes is the final revision of a completed novel. She is the founder and facilitator of the Patten Free Library Writers Group, which meets at the library weekly. Having relocated from Cape Cod to Maine in 2023, she lives in Brunswick. 

Stacie spent nearly a decade as a bookseller and author events coordinator at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops and Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, WI before joining HarperCollins in NYC in a field sales support role and then moving to New England in 2015 to be Ingram Publisher Services’ distribution client sales representative to independent bookstores in the region—a role she held until 2023 and for which she received a bookseller-nominated service award. In a reflection of her reading habits, Stacie dabbles in writing poetry and fiction, though her formally published work is entirely nonfiction. She has also led writing workshops and been a panel moderator several times over the years at AWP’s annual conferences, with a focus on the craft of writing. She is going on 2.5 years as a volunteer at The Library Bookstore and recently joined the staff at Maine Maritime Museum—both in Bath, where she lives with her partner Josh (a bookstore owner himself) and their dog and cat. If she can’t be found in any of those places, she’s probably playing with clay at Handful Studios in Portland.