Dwight Bitikofer has been active in St. Louis poetry circles for the past 20 years. He is president-emeritus of the board for St. Louis Poetry Center. A number of Bitikofer’s poems have been published in various journals and Bitikofer has recently published a chapbook, Square Miles & Roundabouts. The book’s poems and photographs celebrate “place,” including tributes to his origins on a Kansas farm.
Susan Trowbridge Adams is an award-winning Saint Louis based poet and author. Her album and chapbook are titled, “Strength.” She has lived and performed all over the country.
Jason Vasser-Elong, the author of Shrimp, is a writer and researcher who is featured among other poets in the documentary Poetry in Motion: St. Louis Poets Take the Mic. He currently serves as poet in residence for Sapiens Magazine and assistant editor to the Sphinx for the Delta Epsilon Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Eamonn Wall is an Irish native who have lived in Webster Groves since 2000. His books include From Oven Lane to Sun Prairie: In Search of Irish America (2019) and Junction City: New & Selected Poems 1990-2015 (2015). He is a professor of Global Studies and English at UMSL.
María Balogh is a multilingual, bicultural poet, fiction writer, Caribbean folkloric dancer, and educator whose work has been published in journals and in two books and two languages. She has been just about everywhere and done things such as build rural aqueducts in Central America. She teaches Latin American literature and creative writing in Spanish at UMSL.
John Han (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is Professor of English and Creative Writing and Chair of the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University. Han is the author, editor, co-editor, or translator of 30 books, the latest being dawn returns: The Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2022. He has published more than 2,000 poems in various periodicals and anthologies, including Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, and World Haiku Review.
Pacia Elaine Anderson poetic work is a charismatic bend of rhyme, layered imagery and fantasy. The written, spoken, visual and teaching Word Artist’s professional work meets at the intersection of arts-learning and community development with a focus on youth advocacy and the reclamation of the cultural practices, traditions and customs of the African diaspora.