Eliza Callard is a Philly gal, and still lives in the Germantown rowhouse she grew up in.  She likes to run in the Wissahickon and kayak in the Schuylkill, she has been published widely. Lucy Bell Sellers lives in Germantown, taught theatre at Germantown  Friends and at College of the Atlantic. She has written poetry since she was little, but never very much.

Fritz Ward is the author of Tsunami Diorama and the Doppelganged. The recipient of the Cecil Hemley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, his poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets,  and elsewhere. He works at Swarthmore College and lives just outside of Philadelphia. Open Reading Follows, Jennifer Hook and Alina Macneal Hosts