J ames G. Piatt , a retired professor and octogenarian, lives in Santa Ynez, California, with his wife Sandy, and an Aussie dog named Scout. He has published five collections of poetry, The Silent Pond , Ancient Rhythms , LIGHT , Solace Between the Lines , and Serenity , over 1795 poems, 40 short stories, and five novels in scores of national and international literary publications. He earned his doctorate from BYU, and his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, SLO. He has been nominated twice for The Best of The Net award, and four times for a Pushcart award.
Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in fourteen countries and is the author of three books of poetry. He taught tertiary English classes in the US A , PR China, and Palestine. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Samuel Cronin is a native Oregonian, a graduate of Oregon State University with a degree in English, and an alumn from Eastern Oregon University, where he earned a Master's in Education. Serving in the field of special education for almost two decades, when he isn't teaching or advising, he's playing Samurai Ninja Warrior with his son. He also writes.
Cordelia Hanemann , writer/artist, co-hosts Summer Poets in Raleigh, NC. Active with youth in NCPS, she has published in journals-- Atlanta Review, Laurel Review , California Quarterly; anthologies including best-selling Poems for the Ukraine and her chapbook. Her poems have been performed, featured, and nominated for Pushcarts. She is working on a novel. Stephen Mead is a retired c ivil s ervant, having worked two decades for three state agencies. Before that , his more personally fulfilling career was fifteen years in healthcare. Throughout all these day jobs he was able to find time for writing poetry/essays, and creating art. Occasionally he even got paid for this work. Currently he is resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations and allies predominantly before Stonewall, The Chroma Museum.
J. B. Toner studied Literature at Thomas More College and holds a black belt in Ohana Kilohana Kenpo-Jujitsu. He is the author of The Shoreless Sea , a novel from Beacon Publishing about human and elven martial artists kicking the shit out of each other. Toner lives and works in Massachusetts.
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