Dr. Emerson Eads serves as Director of Choral Activities at Minot State University. He has composed two songs and a series of piano preludes for "The Unquiet Country."

Allison A. deFreese is a translator and poet living in Portland, Oregon. We are grateful for her translation of Winter Season.

Fabián O. Iriarte is a queer poet from Mar del Plata, Argentina

Natalia Novia is a comic and zine artist, animation producer, and creature of strange habits living in Buenos Aires.

Robert Lashley is a poet and novelist living in Bellingham, Washington.

Shin Yu Pai is Seattle's current Poet Laureate.

Kate Lebo is a constituent of Washington State’s Fifth District, represented in Congress by Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

Christine Deavel has published poems and essays, including the poetry collection Woodnote (Bear Star Press, 2012), and lives in Seattle.

Sarah is an aspiring film director and is currently a sophomore at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.

Roberta Antognini's research lie in the Middle Ages and Renaissance literature, the history of the Italian language, autobiography, and more recently, translation practice and theory.

Rebecca Starkey is an aspiring cinematographer and will be graduating in June from the film program at Central Washington University.

Carrie DeBacker is a Seattle-based visual artist and illustrator.

Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improviser, producer, writer, and teacher from Seattle.

Syrinx Effect is the interstellar folk-punk jazz duo of Kate Olson on soprano saxophone and Naomi Siegel on trombone, plus their pedals, laptop, and other toys

Trained as a painter, Nia Michaels became obsessed with old decorative tins and tintype photos ten years ago and now works exclusively with these materials.