Charlie Brice is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (2016), Mnemosyne’s Hand (2018), An Accident of Blood (2019), and The Broad Grin of Eternity (forthcoming), all from WordTech Editions. His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Sunlight Press, Chiron Review, Permafrost, Plainsongs, I-70 Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere.
Judith Alexander Brice is a retired Pittsburgh psychiatrist whose love of nature and experiences with illness inform much of her work. She has had over 80 poems published in journals and anthologies, including in The Golden Streetcar, Voxpopulisphere.com, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Magnolia Review.com, and Annals of Internal Medicine, among others. Judy has twice received the Editor’s Choice Award in The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, sponsored by The Paterson Literary Review. Judy is the author of Renditions in a Palette and Overhead From Longing, and Imbibe The Air (forthcoming January 2021).
Jay Carson holds a doctorate in rhetoric from Carnegie-Mellon University. He taught for many years at Robert Morris University where he was a founding advisor to the literary magazine, Rune. He has published more than 100 poems in local and national journals, magazines, and collections. He is also the author of Irish Coffee (Coal Hill Press) and The Cinnamon of Desire (Main Street Rag). Jay considers his poetry Appalachian, accessible, the ongoing problem-solving of a turbulent youth, and just what you might need
Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer, poet and visual artist. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Writers. She has published 75+ poems, five poetry collections, one fiction collection; one novel; and edited or co-edited eleven poetry collections. Robinson teaches at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
David Adès is a widely published poet and short story writer with publications in Australia, the U.S., Israel, India, England, Romania and New Zealand. He is the author of Mapping the World, Afloat in Light and the chapbook Only the Questions Are Eternal. In association with WestWords, David is the curator of the Poets’ Corner reading (and now podcast) series in western Sydney. David’s poems have been read on the Australian radio program Poetica and the U.S. radio program Prosody. David’s poetry has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, has won the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted twice for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. His poems have been Highly Commended in the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, a finalist in the Dora and Alexander Raynes Poetry Prize (U.S.) and commended for the Reuben Rose International Poetry Prize (Israel).