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.
Steven Winn’s work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Florida Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA and elsewhere. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and spent 28 years as a critic of arts and culture at the San Francisco Chronicle.
Heather Hallberg Yanda teaches in the English Department at Alfred University in the hills of upstate New York. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Sojourners, The White Pelican Review, and The Yale Journal of Medical Humanities among others. Her first collection of poems, The Neighbors’ Beautiful Daughters, is currently looking for a publisher.