Mary Buchinger, author of VIROLOGY (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), /klaʊdz/ (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021), e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling (Main Street Rag, 2018), Aerialist (Gold Wake, 2015; shortlisted for the May Swenson Poetry Award, the OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry, and the Perugia Press Prize), Roomful of Sparrows (Finishing Line, 2008; New Women’s Voices Series semi-finalist), and Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, forthcoming, 2023), has received awards from the New England Poetry Club and the Virginia Poetry Society, a Norton Island Residency, and multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Her poetry appears in AGNI, Hollins Critic, Nimrod, Plume, Salt Hill, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and elsewhere. She serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. www.MaryBuchinger.com.

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Kathleen Aguero has published several collections of poetry: After That, Daughter Of, The Real Weather, Thirsty Day, Investigations: a collection of poems inspired by Nancy Drew. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Poetry magazine, Massachusetts Review, and the Cincinnati Review. She is also co-editor of three collections of multicultural literature: A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare. Her creative nonfiction essay “Marriage Koan” appears in the anthology Why I’m Still Married. Recipient of a Massachusetts Fellowship in Poetry and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Kathleen also was awarded a writing grant from the Elgin/Cox Trust. She has taught at the Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, the NY State Young Writers’ Program at Skidmore, as well as in the Poets in the Schools Programs of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. In 2004, she held the position of Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. In addition to teaching in the Solstice MFA program at Lasell University, Kathleen teaches for “Changing Lives Through Literature,” an alternative sentencing program based on the power of books to change lives through reading and group discussion. She is a consulting editor in poetry for The Kenyon Review. 

George Kalogeris’ most recent book of poems is Winthropos (Louisiana State University, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU), a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets. His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). He is the winner of the James Dickey Poetry Prize.

Jennifer Barber’s new collection, The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made, came out in 2022 from The Word Works and her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Red Letters, Ibbetson Street, On the Seawall, Post Road, and Upstreet. She is the current poet laureate of Brookline and the co-editor, with Fred Marchant and Jessica Greenbaum, of the anthology Tree Lines: 21^st Century American Poems (Grayson Books, 2022). She served as the editor in chief of the literary journal Salamander from 1992 to 2018.