Jennifer Saunders is the author of Tumor Moon, winner of the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Contest, and Self-Portrait with Housewife, winner of the Clockwise Chapbook Competition (Tebot Bach, 2019). She is also the co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation(Querencia Press, 2023), a multi-genre anthology that breaks the silence surrounding the menstruating body. Jennifer's poems and reviews can be found in Adroit, Chestnut Review, The Georgia Review, Literary Mama, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore, Salamander, San Pedro RiverReview, and elsewhere as well as in several anthologies and craft books including Masque Anthology and The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft. Jennifer's poem "Crosswalk" was selected by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2020 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize and appeared in Southword. Her poem "What If I Could Tell You Everything About Myself By Quoting Others?" earned an Honorable Mention in the Geneva Literary Prize judged by Sharon Mesmer. Jennifer is a multiple Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Orison Anthology nominee.Born and raised in suburban Chicago, Jennifer now lives in German-speaking Switzerland with her husband and two children. A lifelong hockey enthusiast, she has taught skating in a hockey school in Bern, Switzerland, for over ten years and continues to drive her hockeyplaying son to many, many ice rinks. She has seen some glorious moonrises and moonsets along the way.

Lana Hechtman Ayers, a former New Yorker who made her way to the Pacific Northwest after a dozen year sojourn in New England, has shepherded over a hundred thirty poetry volumes into print in her role as managing editor for three small presses. Her work appears in Rattle, The London Reader, Peregrine, and elsewhere. Lana's latest collection, The Autobiography of Rain, is available from Fernwood Press. She lives on the unceded land of the Yaqo'n people in Newport, Oregon with her husband and several cats and dogs.