TINA RAYE DAYTON

Tina Raye Dayton grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the 2012 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize winner and author of the chapbook, The Softened Ground. Tina’s poems have appeared in The Delmarva Review, Potomac Review, The Broadkill Review, and a number of other journals. She is thrilled to have received her first Pushcart Nomination for her poem “The Shell,” which was included in the 2020 Bay to Ocean Anthology. Pre-pandemic, Tina worked as a preschool teacher. These days she's homeschooling her 9-year old, accepting freelance editing projects, and is still baking banana bread.

RICK LUPERT

Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry in Los Angeles since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ted Slade Award, and the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award, a 3 time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a Best of the Net nominee. He served as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for two years, and created Poetry Super Highway. Rick has hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years. His spoken word album Rick Lupert Live and Dead featured 25 studio and live tracks. He’s authored 25 collections of poetry, including The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express, Hunka Hunka Howdee! and God Wrestler (Ain’t Got No Press) and edited the anthologies A Poet’s Siddur, Ekphrastia Gone Wild, A Poet’s Haggadah and the noir anthology The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic Cat and Banana and writes the poetry column “From the Lupertverse” for JewishJournal.com. He has been lucky enough to read his poetry all over the world.  For more about Rick, visit Poetry Superhighway.

KIMBERLY QUIOGUE ANDREWS

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews is a poet and literary critic. She is the author of A Brief History of Fruit, winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry from the University of Akron Press, and BETWEEN, winner of the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Prize from Finishing Line Press. Her recent work in various genres appears in Poetry Northwest, Redivider, Denver Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Maryland and teaches at Washington College, and you can find her on Twitter at @kqandrews.  Photo credit: Alex Bowles.

JAMES ALLEN HALL

James Allen Hall's first book of poems, Now You're the Enemy (University of Arkansas, 2008), won awards from Lambda Literary, the Texas Institute, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His book of lyric essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2017), won the Devil's Kitchen Award for Nonfiction. His second book of poems, Romantic Comedy, won the 2020 Levis Prize from Four Way Books and will be published in 2023. He is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Court Green, Ploughshares, and Pleiades. He teaches at Washington College, where he directs the Rose O'Neill Literary House.


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