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Kristofer Collins is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Low Ghost Press founded in 2008 and the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is also the co-curator of the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book, Roundabout Trace, was published in 2022 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.
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Joan E. Bauer is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Fig Season (Turning Point, 2023), The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2021), and The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). Recent work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream and Chiron Review. She divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins.
Daniela Buccilli's poetry chapbook is What It Takes to Carry (Main Street). She has writing degrees from Carlow University and University of Pittsburgh. She teaches high school, has co-edited a poetry anthology, serves as her union's secretary, and has been published in anthologies, journals, and Tiny Day. She workshops with Madwomen in the Attic.
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M. Scott Douglass is the Publisher/Managing Editor at Main Street Rag Publishing Company. He grew up in Pittsburgh, lived in North Carolina for over thirty years, and now calls Edinboro, PA home. He’s a North Carolina ASC Grant recipient and a Pushcart Prize nominee. His poetry books include Auditioning for Heaven, Balancing on Two Wheels, Steel Womb Revisited, Hard to Love, Just Passing Through, and most recently, Living in a Red State Blues. His graphic design work has earned two PICA Awards and an Eric Hoffer Award nomination. 8000 Mile Roll A Motorcycle Memoir is his first book of prose.
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Marguerite Miller is an English and Journalism teacher in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the Co-founder and Editor of Lefty Blondie Press based in Pittsburgh and a member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops through Carlow University. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Editing and Publishing from Chatham University where her poetry thesis was a finalist for Best Thesis in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in Mangrove, The Minor Bird, IDK Magazine, The Labletter Monthly Notes, Perversion Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Maine native Anastasia Walker (she/her/hers) is a queer poet, essayist, and scholar. Her first book of poetry, The Girl Who Wasn’t and Is, was published in 2022. Her essays have appeared in several journals, and she's currently shopping an essay collection subtitled “A Memoir in Shards.” She's on the board of Pittsburgh’s PFLAG chapter, volunteers for the Transgender Law Center’s prison mail program, and is a lover of long walks and swimming in the ocean. She's old school and has a snazzy blog (also called "The Girl Who Wasn't and Is") if anyone is interested in keeping up with her publications, her kitchen adventures, updates on her plants, and other matters of world-historical significance.
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