Martha McCollough lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her collection of poems, Wolf Hat Iron Shoes, is available from Lily Poetry Review Press. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Radar, QWERTY, Tampa Review, Tammy, Barrelhouse, and Salamander, among others. Her chapbook, Grandmother Mountain, was published by Blue Lyra Press in October 2019. Her videopoems have appeared in Triquarterly, Datableed, and Atticus Review. Her full length collection, Wolf Hat Iron Shoes is available from Lily Poetry Review Books.

 

Richard Michelson’s children’s books have been listed among the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and The New Yorker; and among the 12 Best Books of the Decade by Amazon.com. He has been a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award (2x), the Harlem Book Fest Wheatley Award, and the National Jewish Book Award (3x), as well as receiving two Skipping Stones Multicultural Book Awards, a National Parenting Publication Gold Medal and an International Reading Association Teacher’s Choice Award. In 2009 Michelson received both a Sydney Taylor Gold and Silver Medal from the Association of Jewish Librarians, the only author so honored in AJL’s 50 year history. Michelson received his 2nd Silver Medal in 2017 and his  2nd Gold Medal in 2018. Additionally, Michelson won the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.

Michelson’s latest collection of poetry for adults is More Money than God (Pitt Poetry Series). Previous collections include Battles & Lullabies, Tap Dancing for Relatives and 2 fine press collaborations with the artist Leonard Baskin. Clemson University named Michelson their Calhoun Distinguished Reader in American Literature. Recent poems have appeared in The Harvard Review, The Massachusetts Review, Parnassus and elsewhere. Michelson is the owner of R. Michelson Galleries, the host of Northampton Poetry Radio, and the current Poet Laureate of Northampton Massachusetts.

Susan Rancourt is Abenaki/Huron decent and is a multi-modal Expressive Arts Therapist with graduate degrees and certifications in psychology, creative writing, drug and alcohol recovery. Her first book of poetry, Billboard in the Clouds, Curbstone Press, received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award and is now in its 2nd printing , Norhtwestern University Press. Her second, murmurs at the gate, Unsolicited Press, released May 2019.  Ms. Rancourt's 3rd book, Old Stones, New Roads, Main Street Rag Publishers, released 2021.  Her 4th manuscript, Songs of Archilochus, Unsolicited Press, is scheduled to release  Autumn 2023.