John Amen is the author of several collections of poetry, the latest of which is Illusion of an Overwhelm. strange theater was a finalist for the 2016 Brockman-Campbell Award and work from which was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Dana Award. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in journals nationally and internationally he is a Staff Reviewer for No Depression and founded and conti nues to edit The Pedestal Magazine. Amy Small-McKinney won The Kithara Book Prize 2016 for her second full-length collection of poems, Walking Toward Cranes. Small-McKinney was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was the 2011 Montgomery County Poet Laureate, judged by poet, Chris Bursk. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, She facilitates poetry workshops in Philadelphia.