Wellfleet Public Library

A Cape Cod native, Albert Groom was raised on the shores of the Atlantic in the outer Cape town of Truro. His journey as a poet began with an open mic event at Brook's Park in Harwich which encouraged him to enroll in a poetry workshop writing class. His work has been featured in the weekly Photo and Poem Series of the Provincetown Public Library, and March 2024 he was featured as the Brewster Ladies Library Poet of the Month. He currently resides in Orleans. Eggplant: Golden or Scorned is his first book of published poems.

Catherine Staples had published three volumes of poetry: Vert, The Rattling Window, and Never a Note Forfeit. Her poems have appeared in Academy of American Poets, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and others. Honors include the Guy Owen Prize, McGovern Poetry Prize, Walter Dakin Fellowship, and multiple residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. Staples teaches at Villanova University and serves on the board of the Thoreau Society. She and her family spend a week or two every summer on Black Pond Road