SALLY BLIUMIS-DUNN teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College. She received her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence e in 2002. Her poems have appeared in  Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, the NYT, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, PLUME, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Almanac and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day,  among others. Her books, Talking Underwater and Second Skin were published by Wind Publications in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Her latest book, Echolocation, was published in 2018 with Plume Editions. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. In 2008, she was invited to read at the “Love Poems Program” at the Library of Congress.  More available on Sally at: http://terrain.org/2013/poetry/two-poems-by-sally-bliumis-dunn, on Academy of American Poets, Writer’s Almanac, From the Fishouse.org, on PBS News Hour Weekly Poem, and Rattle. Find out more about Sally Bliumis-Dunn at http://www.sallybliumisdunn.com.

LORNA KNOWLES BLAKE was born in Havana, Cuba and spent her childhood in Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela and Puerto Rico before coming to the United States. She received the 2017 Able Muse Award for her book, Green Hill, published in 2018; her poetry collection, Permanent Address, won the 2006 Richard Snyder Memorial Award from Ashland University Press.  Blake’s work also has appeared in several anthologies, including The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems and Chance of a Ghost: An Anthology of Ghost Poems. She serves on the editorial board at the journal Barrow Street and on the advisory committee for WCAI’s Poetry Sundays radio program. She teaches creative writing in Brewster, on Cape Cod and in New Orleans.

Angela Narciso Torres is the author of Blood Orange (Willow Books Poetry Prize). Her second full length collection will be published by Four Way Books in 2021 and other work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Quarterly West, Missouri Review, Bellingham Review, Cortland Review, and PANK. A graduate of Warren Wilson’s MFA program and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and Ragdale Foundation. She was recently awarded the 2019 Yeats Poetry Prize by the W.B. Yeats Society of New York. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she is a senior and reviews editor for RHINO and serves on the editorial panel of New England Review.