SALLY BLIUMIS-DUNN teaches at The 92nd Street Y and is Associate Editor at-large for Plume Poetry. Her poems appeared in The Dodge, New Ohio Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, PLUME, Poetry London, the NYT, PBS NewsHour, upstreet, The Writer’s Almanac, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and Ted Kooser’s column, among others. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her third book, ECHOLOCATION, was on the long list for the Julie Suk Award in 2019.

SUSANA H. CASE is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn’t Love, Broadstone Books, and co-editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, Milk & Cake Press (Honorable Mention for the Eric Offer Book Award). The first of her five chapbooks, The Scottish Café, Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in an English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka by Opole University Press and as an English-Ukrainian edition, Шотландська Кав’ярня by Slapering Hol Press. https://www.susanahcase.com

C.S. NELSON (Chris Hansen-Nelson) is the author of two collection of poetry, The Book of Clay,2018 and Fathers, Sons and Holy Ghosts, 2022.  A third collection is in process.  The literary journal Kestral has just accepted one of Chris’ poems for publication in their next issue.  His work has also most recently appeared in The Café Review and Oberon.  Chris is the director of Bloom Readings.