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David Alpaugh has lived in California for 45 years but has yet to lose his New Jersey accent. His collection, Counterpoint, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press. He has been a finalist for Poet Laureate of California. His poems have appeared in Evergreen Review, The Formalist, The Hypertexts, Light, Raintown Review, Poetry, and many other journals.

Trina L. Drotar, a San Francisco native currently residing in Sacramento, comes to poetry through prose, art, music, and design. She is working on a collection of prose and poetry, Night Garden, for her MA thesis. She is the current editor of Poetry Now and former editor of Calaveras Station. Her work has appeared on Medusa’s Kitchen and Ophidian, and in WTF, Word Riot, Rattle, and Brevities.