• Read more about Nancy Mitchell

Nancy Mitchell is a 2012 recipient of a Pushcart Prize, author of The Near Surround, Grief Hut, and The Out-of-Body Shop, poetry collections that have earned praise from celebrated poets Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine, and Ira Sadoff. She publishes widely in journals such as Agni, Green Mountains Review, and Washington Square Review, and has been awarded numerous residency fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in VA and France and Oregon State University. Mitchell is the Associate Editor for Special Features for Plume Poetry, and Poet Laureate of The City of Salisbury, Maryland

• Read more about Viki Volk

Viki Volk explores how ‘community is created and society’s subsequent control over its members and outcasts whether writing news, features, essays, or novels. Based in Southern Maryland since the 1980s, she reported firsthand on disappearing cultures and environmental loss. Her writing for The Enterprise newspaper is archived. Two of her essays appear in Slackwater journals, one is taught in a St.

• Read more about Lane

Long a writer and editor at the World Future Society, publishers of The Futurist magazine, Lane retired in 2015 as Managing Editor of the scholarly journal World Future Review. Lane has published a novel, Satisfaction (2016), and two books of poetry: Fabrications (1998) and Virtual Futures (1996).  His poems and translations have appeared in Antietam Review, Bogg, Christian Science Monitor, Gargoyle, Green Mountain Review, Visions, Writer’s Carousel, and other magazines in the US and Canada. He lives in Columbia Maryland.

• Read more about Liz Flyntz

Liz Flyntz is an artist, curator, and digital experience designer.  Liz has designed exhibitions and written about video art and documentary, participatory and collective art making, and other topics related to media art for publications including Afterimage, Intercourse, and the Creators Project. She co-edited The Present Is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST, a book about Ant Farm's time capsule works for Pioneer Works Press.

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• Read more about May Kuroiwa

May Kuroiwa’s grandparents emigrated from Japan over a hundred years ago to work on a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation. Hawaii and its land and peoples often appear in her work. One of her short stories won the 2020 Chautauqua Literary Arts Charles McCorkle Hauser Prize; another was selected this summer as a Narrative Magazine Story of the Week. Her poems have been published in The Loch Raven Review; Mobius, the Journal of Social Change; and Maryland in Poetry, the 2020 MWA Anthology. She is working on a chap book and her first play.