Heather Bourbeau’s work has appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her most recent collection is “Monarch,” a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the American West she was raised in (Cornerstone Press, 2023).

Willa Schneberg is a poet, essayist, visual artist, curator and psychotherapist in private practice. She has authored six poetry collections including: In The Margins of The World, recipient of the Oregon Book Award; Storytelling in Cambodia, and Rending the Garment. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell. Work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including: American Poetry Review; Salmagundi; Poet Lore; Bellevue Literary Review, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, and The Journal of Psychohistory. Her new collection, poems relating to mental health, is entitled The Naked Room, (Broadstone Press, 2023).