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Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University. She has published seven collections of poetry, among them Diary of Saint Marion, (Lily Poetry Review, 2025), Cormorant on the Strand (Lily Poetry Review, 2023), and Hydrangea, (Kelsay Press, 2020), Her poems have appeared in Mom Egg Review, Quartet and River Heron among others. She has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize. She has been nominated for the Griffin Prize and for the Shelia Margaret Motton Award. She was a Semi-Finalist for the Tenth Gate Prize. She is also a filmmaker.

Jim Dunn is the author of Angry Bull’s Cadence (The Bodily Press, 2025), This Silence is a Junkyard (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), and Soft Launch (Bootstrap Press/Pressed Wafer, 2008) among others. His work has appeared in Castle Grayskull, Blazing Stadium, Nude Poems, Bright Pink Mosquito, Café Review, in the anthology tribute to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World and elsewhere. He recently edited the poems of Charley Shively, I Have a Poem for You, with Erik Lomen for Bootstrap Press. He lives on the North Shore of Boston.