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Richard Meyer, a former English and humanities teacher, lives in Mankato, Minnesota. His poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Able Muse, theRaintown Review, Think, Measure, Alabama Literary Review, Light, and the Evansville Review. He was awarded the 2012 Robert Frost Farm Prize for his poem “Fieldstone” and was the recipient of the 2014 String Poet Prize for his poem “The Autumn Way.” A book of his collected poems, Orbital Paths, was a silver medalist winner in the 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Alfred Nicol collaborated with Rhina P. Espaillat and illustrator Kate Sullivan to create the chapbook Brief Accident of Light: Poems of Newburyport (Kelsay Books, 2019). Nicol’s most recent full-length collection of poetry, Animal Psalms, was published in 2016 by Able Muse Press. He has published two other collections, Elegy for Everyone (2010), and Winter Light, which received the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award. Nicol’s poem “Addendum” was included in the 2018 edition of The Best American Poetry.

Suzanne Noguere is the author of a book of poems, Whirling Round the Sun (Midmarch Arts Press, 1996), as well as two natural history children’s books. With James V. Hatch she cowrote a novel and the musical play Klub Ka: The Blues Legend, which was performed at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City, where she lives. With artist Miriam Adams she created the art/poetry series Leaf Lines. Her honors include a Poetry Society of America award, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and the University of Iowa Partnership in the Arts Award for Klub Ka.

Miriam O’Neal earned her MFA in writing and literature at the Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont. She has published poems and reviews in AGNI, Blackbird Journal, the Guidebook, Lily Poetry Review, Nottingham Review, Ragazine, and elsewhere. Her honors include finalist in the Brian Turner Poetry Prize, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants in Poetry, and Princemere Poetry Prize.

John Beaton’s collection, Leaving Camustianavaig, is forthcoming from Word Galaxy Press in spring 2021. He has been published in media as diverse as Able Muse and Gray’s Sporting Journal. He wrote a monthly poetry page for several years for Eyes on BC magazine and served for four years as a poetry workshop moderator at Able Muse’s Eratosphere.

Born in London in 1933, John Ridland grew up in California. He earned his PhD from Claremont Graduate School and taught for forty-three years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was Professor Emeritus of its College of Creative Studies. He published numerous books and chapbooks, including Ode on Violence, Elegy for My Aunt, Life with Unkie, A Brahms Card Ballad, Happy in an Ordinary Thing, A.