Diane Lee Moomey has lived and wandered around the US and Canada and now lives in Half Moon Bay, California, where she co-hosts a monthly series, “Coastside Poetry.” She has also taught Poetry Appreciation to older adults through Foothill College’s Disability Resource Program. A regular reader at San Francisco Bay Area poetry venues, Diane has published work in The MacGuffin, Light, THINK, Mezzo Cammin, MacQueen’s Quinterly and others, and been nominated for three Pushcart prizes. She is also the author of four poetry collections -- the most recent is Make For Higher Ground. Diane is also a watercolorist and collage artist, an experience that both seeds and is seeded by her poetic imagery. Visit her at www.dianeleemoomeyart.com
Prartho Sereno’s 4 prizewinning poetry collections include Indian Rope Trick, Elephant Raga, Call from Paris, and her illustrated Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives and Loves of Kitchen Utensils. Poet Laureate Emerita of Marin County (2015-17), MFA Syracuse University (2013), and Radio Disney Super Teacher (2005), she was a Poet in the Schools for 21 years and currently teaches The Poetic Pilgrimage: Poem-Making as Spiritual Practice online. Prartho holds over four years in an Indian ashram as her strongest creative influence, but she also credits excursions into other art forms: counseling psychologist, vegetarian cook, mother of 2, meditation and yoga instructor at Cornell University, book and cover illustrator, and amateur singer-songwriter. In January 2022, she was named Artist of the Month by the Pt. Reyes Dance Palace, which celebrated her with a virtual show, “Poems & Paint in Conversation,” pairing Prartho’s watercolor paintings with recitations of simpatico poems. https://www.prarthosereno.com
Ki Coggin is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Mining for Stardust and INCANDESCENT. She is a queer woman of color who thinks Black Lives Matter, a teaching artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council and Arkansas Learning Through the Arts, and the host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry. Recently awarded the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award and named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times, her fierce and powerful poetry has been nominated four times for The Pushcart Prize, as well as Bettering American Poetry 2015, and Best of the Net 2016 and 2018. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Cultural Weekly, SOLSTICE, Bellevue Literary Review, TAB, Entropy, SWWIM, Split This Rock, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, Tupelo Press, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere. Coggin is Associate Editor at The Rise Up Review. She lives with her wife and their two adorable dogs in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.
