JUDITH BOWLES is the author of Unlocatable Source (Turning Point, 2019) and The Gatherer (Turning Point, 2014). She led a senior group of poets for many years in Washington, DC, and edited three volumes of their work, and in 2019 she was selected as poet in residence at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, WA. She has an MFA from the American University where she taught Creative Writing. Her poems have appeared in Gargoyle, The Ekphrastic Review, and Cobalt, among others, and in the anthology Such Friends As These (2018, David Keplinger, editor). Judith Bowles lives in Washington, DC.

ROSE SOLARI is the author of three collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather, the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, and the novel, A Secret Woman. She has lectured and taught writing workshops at many institutions, including the University of Maryland, College Park, MD; St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD; and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Creative Writing in Oxford, England. Her awards include the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, an EMMA award for excellence in journalism, and multiple grants. In 2010, she co-founded Alan Squire Publishing. Rose Solari lives in Bethesda, MD.