Owen Lewis, author of three collections of poetry. His latest book, Field Light, incorporates the social and cultural history of the Berkshires. It was a Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBookAward and a 2021 “Must Read”, Mass Book Awards. His chapbook best man was the recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize of the New England Poetry Club.
Patty Crane is the author of the poetry collections Bell I Wake To (Zone 3 Press, 2019) and something flown (Concrete Wolf, 2018), as well as Bright Scythe (Sarabande Books, 2015) her translations of Swedish Nobel laureate, Tomas Tranströmer. Her award-winning work has been widely published and supported by MacDowell fellowships.
Sasha Debevec-McKenney was the 2020-2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and received her MFA from New York University. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Granta, Peach Mag, Underblong and elsewhere.
David Giannini’s most recent books include The Dawn of Nothing Important; The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up; and In a Moment We May Be Strangely Blended .He and was nominated National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He received a 2021 Finalist Award from The North American Poetry Review.
Jessica Laser was born in Chicago. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides (Letter Machine Editions, 2019) and Planet Drill (Futurepoem Books, forthcoming this year), winner of the Other Futures Award. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, and online at the Poetry Foundation and the Poetry Society of America. New work is forthcoming in Astra, Oversound and The Yale Review. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently a PhD candidate in English at The University of California, Berkeley.
A physician and award winning poet, Richard M. Berlin is the author of four poetry collections, two poetry chapbooks, and a monthly column in Psychiatric Times. Booklist has called him, “A twenty first century William Carlos Williams.” He lives in Richmond, MA.