Johnny Horton

National Poetry Series Finalist, Johnny Horton, has been writing poems in Seattle for twenty-plus years. He's published poems in Poetry Northwest, Los Angeles Review, Willow Springs, City Arts Magazine, and he's been anthologized in his hometown Chicago anthology, City of the Big Shoulders (U. of Iowa Press) as well as alive at the center: contemporary poems from the pacific northwest (Ooligan Press). From 2009-2018, he co-directed the University of Washington's summer creative writing program in Rome. He's been the recipient of a grant from Washington Artist Trust as well as residency fellowships from the Espy Foundation, Casa Libre en Solana, The Ragdale Foundation, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Ana N. June

Ana N. June is an educator, writer, photographer, and ceramicist. Raised in Santa Fe, Ana now lives on a four-generational family property overlooking the Rio Grande bosque near Belen. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Complete Sentence, Hip Mama, Mothering, New Mexico Magazine, and the anthology Santa Fe Noir, edited by Ariel Gore, among others. Ana earned an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus on creative nonfiction from the University of New Mexico and teaches at UNM–Valencia, where she serves as Associate Professor of English and Humanities Division Chair. She is at work on two novels and a memoir centered on the abduction of her first grandchild braided with themes of landscape and home.

Marie Landau

Marie Landau is a poet and editor and based in Albuquerque. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Pictura Journal, Bruiser Mag, Juked, SOFTBLOW, and elsewhere. She is the editor and publisher of Un/Harmed: Why People Are Afraid of Healthcare and How Providers Can Bring Healing into the Exam Room, a trauma-informed healthcare guide written by her late sister Carmen Landau. She can be found on the web at marielandau.com.