Daye Phillippo has lived her life backwards, first raising her family and later earning degrees in creative writing from Purdue University (2011) and Warren Wilson MFA for Writers (2014). She is the recipient of a Mortarboard Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Grant for work in progress, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for poetry. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Literary Mama, Shenandoah, Cider Press Review, Great Lakes Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Natural Bridge, Presence, The Windhover, and many others. She taught English at Purdue University and lives in a creaky, old farmhouse on twenty rural acres in Indiana. Thunderhead, her debut collection of poems, was published by Slant Books in 2020.

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Susan Okie is a doctor, a poet and a former Washington Post medical reporter and science editor. She received her MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2014. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Cider Press Review, Passager, Hospital Drive, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her poem, “Perseid,” was chosen by Michael Collier as the first-prize winner in the 2012 Bethesda Poetry Contest. Her first collection, a chapbook, Let You Fly, was published in 2018 by Finishing Line Press. In addition to poetry, she is the author of two nonfiction books, Fed Up, a book about childhood obesity, and To Space and Back, a children’s book coauthored with the late astronaut Sally Ride.

Her website is www.susanokie.com

Anne Harding Woodworth conflates poetry and music. She sings, she enjoys piano and trumpet, and when she and her husband are at their cabin in the mountains of North Carolina, she plays “Taps” from a deck into the forest at sundown. The pandemic has kept her pretty much at home in Washington, DC, these days, where she worked on the final edits of her new—her seventh—book, Trouble, hot off the press this month. An excerpt from her chapbook, The Last Gun, won the COG Poetry Award and was subsequently animated. In August, a play, Somewhere Voices, which she co-authored with her sister, Bundy H. Boit, had a dramatic reading produced on Zoom by New Surry Theatre in Blue Hill, Maine. Anne's work is published widely in print and on line. She is a member of the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and of the Board of Governors at the Emily Dickinson Museum.

Her website is www.annehardingwoodworth.com