Sara Daniels is a writer, educator, and amateur cold water swimmer living in Marquette, Michigan. Her work has appeared on Poets.org, Pleiades, Foglifter, and her grandmother's fridge.
Samantha DeFlitch is the author of Confluence (Broadstone Books, 2021). Her poems have appeared in New England Review, The Missouri Review, Colorado Review, Four Way Review, Appalachian Review, and On the Seawall, among others. She is a 2025 Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park, and she has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, the Audubon Artist Residency at Hog Island, and the University of New Hampshire, where she completed her MFA. She lives in New Hampshire.
Oz Hardwick is a European poet, photographer, dabbler in sound, and academic by accident, whose work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies. He has published ‘a dozen or so’ full collections and chapbooks, including Learning to Have Lost (IPSI/Recent Work, 2018) which won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for poetry, and most recently Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed (Hedgehog, 2024). Other awards include the 2024 Charles Simic Poetry Prize and the 2024 Dolors Alberola International Poetry Prize. At time of writing, Oz is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University. www.ozhardwick.co.uk