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Elizabeth Sloan Tyler

Sandra Tyler Author of Blue Glass, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and After Lydia, both published by Harcourt Brace. She earned her BA from  Amherst College, and her  MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, NY; Wesleyan University, CT;  Manhattanville College, NY. www.sandratyler.com

DeWitt Henry Founder of Ploughshares literary magazine; author of Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays;  The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts (winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel); Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, and Meditations;  Sweet Dreams: A Family History; and Falling: Six Stories. He has edited five anthologies, including Sorrow’s Company: Writers on Loss and Grief. A graduate of Amherst College, MA, he earned a PhD at Harvard University, and his MFA from The University of Iowa. He is Professor Emeritus of Emerson College, MA.

Sara London Author of the poetry collections The Tyranny of Milk and Upkeep (Four Way Books). Her poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, Poetry East, The Iowa Review, and The Common, among others. She is  the author of two children’s books, and has reviewed children’s literature for The New York Times Book Review. She earned an MFA from the University of Iowa. She was  fiction editor at Seventeen magazine; and as poetry editor at Special Report. She teaches at Smith College.

Richard Malinsky Lyrical abstract painter who has garnered awards from numerous adjudicated museum exhibitions, art associations and prominent galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; RCA Corporate Art Collection, NY; University of Connecticut Health Center, CT Thomas Jefferson University, PA; Ursinus College, PA.

Jennifer Nelson Memoir writer, teacher and former journalist. Her work has appeared on brevity.com and writingthrudivorce.com,  among others.She earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and an MA in journalism from Columbia University.

Lanie Tankard Freelance writer, editor, and researcher; former production editor of Contemporary Psychology book review journal. Her own reviews have been published in World Literature Today, the Kansas City Star, the Austin American-Statesman, and Florida Times-Journal Magazine, among others. She has been published  in River Teeth, Women’s Memoirs, Draft No. 4, and 100 Memoirs.

Heidi Stauff Originally from New England, she currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with her husband and two children. A former professional musician and singer, she holds a BA in English Literature from Liberty University, and her fiction and poetry is published in the Woven Tale Press, Rock & Sling and New Reader Magazine.

Angelica Smith Graduate of the Writing, Literature & Publishing program at Emerson College, MA. She has worked as a reader for Stork magazine, Central Square Theater, and Wilde Press.

Emelia Dubicki A painter and installation artist whose works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been awarded residencies from the I-Park Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. ​Her paintings are in numerous private and corporate collections.

Susan B. Apel She writes for dailyUV.com, and  reviews The Arts Fuse and Delicious Line, among other art publications. She  authors a column  for Vermont Woman. Her creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Best of Vine Leaves 2015, Rhizomes, Vignette Review, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review and Persimmon Tree.

John S. Berman He is the author of four books for Barnes and Noble Press and the Museum of the City of New York. He has  served as contributing writer for the American Jewish Desk Reference, and helped develop exhibitions for the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the Hudson River Parks Trust.

Adrienne Garland Founder of She Leads Media, a  media and marketing consultancy dedicated to enhancing the visibility and influence of women around the world. She is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs Tory Burch 10,000 Small Businesses Program; a recipient of the 2018 WinTrade Award for International Women’s Network; and a New York Business Journal 2016 Class of Women of Influence Honoree. She holds an MBA in Marketing from the Stern School of Business, New York University, NY.

Richard Gilbert Author of Shepherd: A Memoir, about his family operation of a sheep farm in the remote hill country of Appalachian Ohio. He is the former marketing manager of Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, where he also helped acquire books, and a former reporter for newspapers in Georgia, Florida, and Indiana. He teaches writing at Otterbein University

David Hamilton Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa; the author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm (University of Missouri Press), The Least Hinge (Frith Press, poems), Ossabaw (Salt Publications, poems), and numerous uncollected essays. The former editor of The Iowa Review, he also served as director of Iowa’s MFA Program in Nonfiction.

John Skoyles Author of six poetry collections; Generous Strangers, a collection of personal essays; and a memoir, Secret Frequencies: A New York Education; and an autobiographical novel, A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry, His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and The Atlantic, among others. He is a professor in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Department of Emerson College, MA,  and is poetry editor of Ploughshares. His most recent book, The Nut File, is published by Quale Press.

Joyce Peseroff Author of poetry collections Know Thyself,  The Hardness Scale, A Dog in the Lifeboat, Mortal Education, and Eastern Mountain Time. She’s the editor of Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake, The Ploughshares Poetry Reader, and Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. At Ploughshares, she has been Managing Editor, Associate Poetry Editor, and Contributing Editor A Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, she is the former director of their MFA Program.