Scot Siegel is a city planner, educator, and author of four full-length poetry collections, including Tender Currencies from MoonPath Press, 2025, winner of the Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award. Previous volumes include The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (2016) and Thousands Flee California Wildflowers (2012), both from Salmon Poetry. Siegel works with Writing…

Award winning author and poet Ellen Waterston has published four poetry and four literary nonfiction titles, including, most recently, We Could Die Doing This (2024) and Walking the High Desert (2020). She is founder of the Writing Ranch which, since 2000, has conducted workshops for established and emerging writers, and of the annual Waterston Desert…

Born in Colorado and raised in Southern California, John has been a resident of Oregon for over 35 years. Besides being an artist, he is a writer (nonfiction and poetry), musician, school psychologist, an internationally recognized leader in violence prevention and behavioral threat assessment (John Van Dreal Consulting), and the retired Director of Security, Safety,…