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Carolyn Zukowski · editor

Once upon a time, Carolyn moved from Maine to Southern Bohemia, where she met her Canadian husband. They’ve been backpacking through life together ever since. She’s raised a family, owned and managed Krumlov House and earned low-residency MA and MFA degrees in Creative Writing at MMU in the UK. You can find her work in print and online literary magazines.

Kristen McHenry · reader

Kristen McHenry is a poet, blogger, and writer living in Seattle, Washington. She is from the land of the cold and choppy waters. Between bouts of writing, she plays vintage Tomb Raider and lifts heavy things. Her work can be found on the internet, and her blog lives here.

Natalie Nickerson · reader

Natalie Nickerson is a poet and visual artist. Home is a small town in the midst of a rainforest on a remote island off the west coast of Canada where, from 2017 to 2019, she served as Poet Laureate; she shares this home with a cat named Bennie who, suffering as he does from delusions of grandeur, answers only to the name Mustafa, and a daughter who shares her name with a poem by the French Surrealist, Philippe Soupault.

Michelle Taylor Harris · reader, art advisor

After gleefully fleeing to Seattle at the first opportunity to work with Wizards of the Coast, it wasn’t long before Michelle Taylor Harris gained a new appreciation for her home state of Maine and returned to raise a family. Currently a software tester and field hockey league organizer, she reads and sews and dreams of future travels.

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