Doritt Carroll is a native of Washington, DC. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown University. Doritt is the winner of the 2023 Stephen Meats Poetry Prize. She is also the winner of Harbor Review’s 2020 Laura Lee Washburn chapbook prize for her chapbook A Meditation on Purgatory. Her poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, RHINO, and SWWIM, among others. Her collection GLTTL STP was published by Brickhouse Books in 2013. Her chapbook Sorry You Are Not An Instant Winner was published in 2017 by Kattywompus. Her chapbook The Convert was published in 2024 by Bunny and Crocodile Press. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Hiram Larew's most recent collection, This Much Very, was published in January 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. As founder of Poetry X Hunger, he's bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause.
Lillo Way's latest book is FLYING: Trapeze Poems from Red Bird Chapbooks, 2024. Way's poetry collection, Lend Me Your Wings, is described by Ellen Bass as “rich in music and in imagination…a celebration and a joy”. Her chapbook, Dubious Moon won the Hudson Valley Writers Center/Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have won the E.E. Cummings Award and a Florida Review Editors’ Prize. Her writing has appeared in such journals as New Letters, Poet Lore, Tampa Review, Louisville Review, Poetry East, and in many anthologies. Way has received grants from the NEA, NY State Council on the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for her choreographic work involving poetry. www.lilloway.com