Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. Her poems appear in journals such as Apiary, Baltimore Review, Cagibi, East Coast Ink, North of Oxford, One Art Journal, Passager, Philadelphia Stories, Rockvale Review, Rogue Agent and Toho Journal. She authored Camera Obscura (Moonstone Press, 2017), Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press, 2021) and Sparks and Disperses (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming 2021.) Her artwork is on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery (www.ceruleanarts.com) and www.cathleencohenart.com.

Nicole Greaves’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary reviews and was awarded prizes by The Academy of American Poets and the Leeway Foundation. She was a finalist for the Coniston Prize of Radar Poetry, who nominated her for The Best of the Net. She was also a finalist for the Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, the Dogfish Head Poetry Contest, and Glass Lyre’s open reading period. She is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County.

Glenn McLaughlin is retired from over thirty years working in the chemical industry and a brief five year experience teaching high school chemistry and physics. He is the 2013 Montgomery County Poet Laureate, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry (2009) for his collection, “Forms of Lectio”.

Daniel Simpson and Ona Gritz co-authored Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems and co-edited More Challenges for the Delusional, an anthology of prose, poetry, and writing prompts. Their work has been anthologized in About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times and Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, and has appeared, together and apart, in various journals, including Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, River Teeth, Margie, and Nine Mile Magazine.

Mary Jo LoBello Jerome, 2019 Bucks County Poet Laureate, edited the recently published Fire Up the Poems, an anthology of creative writing prompts for teachers. Her poems and stories have been published in numerous magazines. A former teacher, Mary Jo holds an MFA from Vermont College and has written for The New York Times and Scholastic Publications. She is working on her first full-length poetry collection.

Amy Small-McKinney’s chapbook, One Day I Am A Field, is forthcoming with Glass Lyre Press. Her second full-length book of poems, Walking Toward Cranes, won the Kithara Book Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, for example, American Poetry Review, Baltimore Review, and SWWIM, and have been translated into Romanian and Korean. For more information, check out her website: amysmallmckinney.com

Jane Edna Mohler is the current Bucks County Poet Laureate. Her full-length book of poems, Broken Umbrellas, was published by Kelsay Books in 2019. Her poems also appear in many literary journals. She is the 2016 winner of Main Street Voices poetry competition, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a Robert Fraser finalist. She has presented on the craft of poetry at the 2020 and 2021 Bay to Ocean Writers’ Conference in Maryland.

MaryAnn L. Miller is the author of Cures for Hysteria (Finishing Line Press 2018) and Locus Mentis (PS Books 2012.) She has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Ovanque Siamo, Stillwater Review, and anthologies Welcome to the Resistance and Illness as a Form of Existence. Miller is also a visual artist with artist books in the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Miller has Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis. www.maryannlmiller.com

Grace Cavalieri is Maryland’s Tenth Poet Laureate. She’s the author of 26 books and chapbooks of poetry. She’s had several plays, short-form and full-length, produced. She produces and hosts “The Poet and the Poem,” for public radio, 44 years on-air, now from The Library of Congress. She has taught poetry workshops in colleges throughout the country. Her latest books are “Grace Art-Poems and Paintings;” and “The Secret Letters of Madame de Stael.”

Doris Ferleger, award-winning poet and memoir essayist and 2009 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County PA, is the author three other volumes of poetry: Big Silences in a Year of Rain (Main Street Rag 2010), When You Become Snow (Finishing Line Press 2011), and As the Moon Has Breath (Main Street Rag 2013). Winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize and the AROHO CNF Prize, among others, her work has been published in numerous literary journals including Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, L.A. Review, and South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA in Poetry and a Ph.D. in Psychology and maintains a mindfulness-based psychotherapy practice in Wyncote PA.