Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six. She is the author of The Many Names for Mother, winner of the Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press, Sept. 2019) as well as the chapbook The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press, 2014). Her poems appear in POETRY, Nashville Review, TriQuarterly, and Waxwing, among others. Julia is the Editor of Construction Magazine (www.constructionlitmag.com) and writes a blog about motherhood (https://otherwomendonttellyou.wordpress.com/).
Ditta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet. Her recent poetry publications have been in Contemporary American Voices, the American Journal of Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Construction Magazine, New American Writing, Window Cat and Per Contra along with a suite of her photographs. In 2018 she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize.
Louisa Schnaithmann is a poet living and writing in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been or will be published in Menacing Hedge, Projector Magazine, and Rogue Agent. She generally writes about nature, memories from her childhood, and women who deserved
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