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Guy D’Annolfo, winner, poems have been published by Mantis (2024), Schuylkill Valley Journal (2023), Paperbark (2023), and Chestnut Review (2022). When not at work, or kindling a love of Natural History with his son, or accidentally disrupting peace in a Satipaṭṭhāna class, he’s likely to be found reading and writing.

Sheleen McElhinney, runner-up, is a poet, baker, robot maker living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with her family. Her work has appeared in Whiskey Island Magazine and Dogzplot. Her debut book, Every Little Vanishing, will be released this October with Write Bloody Publishing.

Finalists

Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. A painter and teacher, she founded the We the Poets program at ArtWell, an arts education non-profit in Philadelphia. Cathleen holds a PhD in Special Education has led various workshops and classes on poetry, art and literacy. Her writing appears in journals, anthologies and three collections of poetry. Cathleen received the Interfaith Relations Award  and the Public Service Award .

John DiMenna was released from federal prison in May 2020. Since then, he has completed a collection of prose poems titled A DIFFERENT KIND OF HELL, a hybrid form of memoir IN SEARCH OF MYSELF, and is currently writing a long-form memoir titled WHITE COLLAR ELEGY. Selections from the above have been published in several literary journals. He resides on the east coast of Florida with his wife of fifty-two years and writes full-time.

Tyler Dunston is a poet, visual artist, and PhD candidate at the University of Michigan studying literature. He received his MFA in poetry from Boston University, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative, Nimrod International, Raleigh Review, and elsewhere.

Alexandra McIntosh, author of Bowlfuls of Blue, lives and writes in Kentucky, her favorite place on Earth. Her writing explores memory, both personal and communal, and its connection to the natural world. In August of 2019, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University as well as her MA in English from Northern Kentucky University. She is currently teaching college English and working on her next book: a memoir about family stories and the mental landscapes they inhabit.

Lynn Levin, Judge and Host, is a poet and writer, author of nine books, teaches writing and literature at Drexel University and lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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