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Mark Elber was an artist in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and the Arad Arts Project. He was "Poet of the Year" at the Beat Museum in San Francisco in 2007. His first book of poetry, Headstone, was the winner of the 2022 Henry Morgenthau Poetry Prize and was a Massachusetts Book Honor in Poetry in 2023. He is also the author of The Everything Kabbalah Book and The Sacred Now. Born and raised in New York City, he lives in Fall River.

Kathy Shorr's poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, the Nebraska Review, and other publications. She is a winner of a poetry fellowship from Writers at Work and she won first prize from the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest. She is the author of the book Provincetown: Stories from Land's End, and wrote the text for Charles Fields' photography book The Lower Cape. She is also a longtime staff member at the Center for Coastal Studies and a trustee of the Wellfleet Library.