Kevin Opstedal is the author of Twenty-seven books and chapbooks including two full-length collections, Like Rain (Angry Dog Press, 1999) and California Redemption Value (Uno Press, 2011). His latest publication is a collection of new and selected poems: Pacific Standard Time (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016).

Born in Los Angelez, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman received her B.A. in Aesthetic Studies from UC Santa Cruz. She has lived and worked in Santa Cruz for more than 40 years as a visual artist, poet, and community organizer advocating for the restoration of art and music education in public schools. Ziggy’s recently published collection of poems, The Gate of Our Coming and Going, includes 18 full-color monoprints. She is currently working on a new visual manuscript based on fragments of narrative and devotional paintings and decorative ceramics found in Italy where she has just completed an artist residency.

Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts is the author of White Fire, published by Ping-Pong Free Press. He is Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College where he taught composition, literature, public speaking, and humanities for 32 years. He now serves as Vice President of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel, coordinates the Foundation’s annual Prize for Poetry and its annual reading series, and serves as a tour docent. Poet-in-the-Schools for the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, he presents poetry workshops in Monterey County high schools and coordinates the annual Monterey County High School Poetry Awards.