Kate Hutchinson
recently retired from a 34-year career as a high school English teacher and Fine Arts Coordinator.
Lynn Fitzgerald
is a professor of English for the Chicago City Colleges and a published poet.
G. Jordan Maclay
sees art and poetry as an expression of the joyous mysteries and the tough realities of life.
Lennart Lundh
a poet, photographer, short-fictionist, and historian. His work has appeared internationally since 1965.
Joseph Kuhn Carey
has published two full-length books of poetry, Postcards From Poland (Chicago Poetry Press, 2014), and Black Forest Dreams (Kelsay Books, 2021).
Jill Angel Langlois
lives in Gurnee with her husband. They both enjoy poetry, novels, movies and music.
Jennifer Dotson
the author of Late Night Talk Show Fantasy & Other Poems (Kelsay Books, 2020) and Clever Gretel (Chicago Poetry Press, 2013).
Janice Doppler
spent her writing energy on grant proposals and curriculum development during her career as a teacher and school administrator.
Donna Pucciani
a Wheaton resident, has published poetry many national and international journals.
Jane Richards
A retired piano teacher, she now pursues her life-long passions for writing, nature and travel.
Elizabeth Stanley King
a Pantheist, with a love for books and jazz, who writes poetry on the side.
Bakul Banerjee
an award-winning poet and Pushcart Prize-nominated author, enjoys telling her experiential stories through poetry, essays, and short stories.
Charlotte Digregorio
honored by the Illinois Governor for her achievements, has won 81 poetry awards.
Barbara Eaton
earned a Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Medieval Literature from the University of Maryland at College Park and taught at the college level for forty years.