Kevin Carey is Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. Books include: The Beach People (2014) Red Bird Chapbooks, The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was an Honor book for the Paterson Literary Prize, & Set in Stone (2020) all from CavanKerry Press. His poems have appeared on The Writers Almanac on National Public Radio and on The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day. Kevin is also a playwright and a filmmaker. He has co-directed & co-produced two documentaries about poets, All That Lies Between Us (about New Jersey poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan) and Unburying Malcolm Miller, which premiered at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in 2017. A crime novel, Murder in the Marsh, from Darkstroke Books, was released in October (2020). A new middle grade novel Junior Miles and the Junkman dropped in September of 2023 from Regal House / Fitzroy Books, and a new co-written collection Olympus Heights was out in October from Lily Poetry Review. He is co-editor of Molecule: a tiny lit mag. kevincareywriter.com

Jennifer Martelli (she, her, hers) is the author of The Queen of Queens (Bordighera Press) and My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), selected as a 2019 “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, chosen as a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award, and given an honorable mention from the Italian American Studies Association. She is also the author of the chapbooks In the Year of Ferraro from Nixes Mate Press and After Bird, winner of the Grey Book Press open reading. Her work has appeared in The Tahoma Literary Review, The Sycamore Review, Thrush, Cream City Review, Verse Daily, Iron Horse Review (winner of the Photo Finish contest), Poetry, and elsewhere. She has twice received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her poetry. She is co-poetry editor for Mom Egg Review and co-curates the Italian American Writers Association Reading Series.

Stephenie Young is a photographer, writer and professor of comparative literature at Salem State University who is originally from Southern California. She has widely published her writing about trauma, war and social oppression, including a recent essay about the meme and fake news during Covid with Serbian visual artist Vladimir Miladinović, “The Reluctant Screen Shot Collector,” for the Journal of Visual Culture and Harun Farocki Institute in London. Her current project is a multi-year photographic study of the disappearing world of Kurdistan. She has lived in Somerville, Massachusetts since 2008.

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