Phyllis Carol Agins has long found inspiration in Philadelphia. Two novels, short stories and essays, a children’s book, and an architectural study were published during her years there. Lately, she divides her time between Philly and Nice, France, where she adds the Mediterranean rhythms to her world. She has just completed a new novel, The Protection of Salt. Visit phylliscarolagins.com to learn more.

Joe Chelius works as a senior copy editor for a healthcare advertising agency in the Philadelphia suburbs. His poetry has appeared most recently in Cider Press Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Poetry East, and Commonweal. His poetry chapbook Taking Pitches was published in 2006 by Pudding House Publications.

Grant Clauser works a writer and magazine editor, living in Hatfield, PA. His poems have appeared in various journals including The Literary Review, Cortland Review, The Heartland Review and the Painted Bride Quarterly. He is also the 2010 Montgomery County Poet Laureate.

Host of Poetry Aloud and Alive at the Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy, and a docent at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, Mike Cohen advocates aesthetic appreciation, in the belief that the history of man should be presented not only as the history of war, but the history of art, as well.

Anna Evans’s poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the editor of the Raintown Review. Her chapbooks Swimming and Selected Sonnets are available from Maverick Duck Press.

Joseph J. Feeney, S.J., is Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, teaching courses as varied as Modernism and Postmodernism, Hopkins and Joyce. A Jesuit priest, he is the author of The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins(2008) and co-editor of the book Hopkins Variations: Standing Round a Waterfall (2002) and of the academic journal The Hopkins Quarterly(1994- present).

Ray Greenblatt’s work has most recently been in Verse Wisconsin, Pen, and Willard & Maple. His newest collection is titled Leavings of the Evening(Foothills Press).

Marie Kane, whose work is widely published, is the 2006 Bucks County Poet Laureate. She is a second place winner in the Poetry Society of New Hampshire’s International Contest, second and third place winner in the Inglis House Contest in Philadelphia, and a finalist in the 2009 Robert Fraser contest. She has received a recognition award for her poetry from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and a Pushcart Prize nonimation in 2010.

David Livewell was raised in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Sewanee Review, and other journals. His cycle of poems about Andrew Wyeth, Woven Light, appeared last year (www.blurb.com). He and his family live in New Jersey.

In 2009, Bernadette McBride was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, PA. She has been a finalist in the Robert Fraser Poetry Competition and was the second-place winner of the international Ray Bradbury writing competition in 2006. She teaches at Bucks County Community College and Temple University.

Louis McKee’s poems are in recent or upcoming issues of APR, Paterson Poetry Review, 5 A.M., Chiron Review, Poet Lore, and Verse Wisconsin, among others. His most recent books are Near Occasions of Sin (Cynic) and Still Life (FootHills). Adastra Press has published MARGINALIA, his translations of Old Irish monastic poems.

Amy Small-McKinney is a poet with two published chapbooks and two Pushcart nominations. When not writing poetry, she works with Middle School students who honor her with their stories. She resides in Blue Bell, PA.