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identity and life to inspire their writing and poetic voice. Their work has been published
in SCAB Magazine.
RUTH Traubner KESSLER is a two-time immigrant whose work focuses on place,
displacement and memory. Her publications include the chapbook Fire Ashes Wings,
and over 80 poems, some with special honors. A full-length collection is forthcoming
in 2025. Poems have been performed in concerts and festivals and made into an artist
book. Awards include NYSCA grants, and Yaddo, MacDowell and VCCA fellowships.
She lives in NYC. www.RuthKessler.com
Sarah E N Kohrs is a writer and artist with poems published in Arboreal Literary
Magazine, Bluebird Word, Chariot Press, Culinary Origami, The Elevation, GROUND,
Kitchen Quarterly Review, Louisiana Literature, Rattle’s Poets Respond, Stoneboat, Wild
Roof Journal, and numerous other literary journals. She has received the Peter K. Hixson
Poetry Award, as well as Poetry Society of Virginia's Dr. Lucille E Thompson Memorial,
Judah, Sarah, Grace, & Tom Memorial, Ekphrastic Poetry, Don Frew & John Newcomb
Memorial, and Ada Sanderson Memorial Awards. Her chapbook, Chameleon Sky, won
the 2022 Kingdoms in the Wild poetry award. Sarah has a BA in Classical Languages and
Archaeology from College of Wooster, Ohio, and a Virginia teaching license endorsed
in Latin and Visual Arts. Life experiences that bolster her art include homeschooling her
sons, creating pottery for local Empty Bowl suppers, and volunteering for the rural nonpro昀椀t, Valley Educational Center for the Creative Arts (VECCA).
http://senkohrs.com.
KM Kramer is a writer, previously a First Amendment attorney, who feels most at home
in California. She earned her undergraduate and law degrees at Stanford. Her creative
works can be found in Action Spectacle, Rogue Agent, Free the Verse,Last Stanza Poetry
Journal, and many other places. Her debut chapbook, Art of Remaking, longlisted by
Frontier Poetry in 2025 under a di昀昀erent title, will be available in February 2026.
D.C. Leach is a poet and translator based in Baltimore whose work has appeared or is
forthcoming in Sargasso, Meridian, Modern Haiku, Bottle Rockets, and King昀椀sher. He
was a 昀椀nalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2024 Nature & Place prize and holds an MFA in poetry
from New York University.
Laurinda Lind lives in New York’s North Country, close to Canada. Some of her poems
are in Blue Earth Review, New American Writing, and Spillway. Her 昀椀rst chapbook, Trials
by Water, was released in summer 2024 (Orchard Street Press). She has also placed 昀椀rst in
the Keats-Shelley, Peggy Willis Lyles, Foley, and Northwind poetry competitions.
A stay-at-home mom to her three young children, Francine Rubin previously worked as
a teacher and higher education administrator. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks
If You're Talking to Me: Commuter Poems (dancing girl press), City Songs (Blue Lyra
Press), and Geometries (Finishing Line Press). She is online at francinerubin.tumblr.com.
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