Kim Shuck is a writer, educator, and iconoclast. Shuck was born in San Francisco in the fret that was the 1960s. Kim served as San Francisco's 7th Poet Laureate. Shuck's latest book of poetry is Exile Heart from That Painted Horse Press.

Bill Cozzini is the Editor-in-Chief of the Poetry Center San José, of Caesura journal. Along with reviewing and editing thousands of poems as an editor.

Kimy J. Martinez is the Editor-in-Chief for Poetry Center of San Jose’s poetry and art journal, Cæsura. As a poet she has won numerous awards including the Virginia de Araujo Academy of American Poets Prize, the James D. Phelan Award, and the Dorrit Sibley Poetry Award.

A member of the Pride Poets Corner, Nate’Eya Kahsai is an acclaimed writer who fights for a wide range of voices. As a child, a debilitating stutter suppressed her voice. This all changed at age eight when a teacher handed her a pen. “Write a poem.” Kahsai’s silent imagination found a voice. With her eye on the mic, she crafts and contributes to projects across platforms–as writer and poet.

Shruthi Mathur is the president of the United Nations Association, Los Angeles Chapter, UN Women Speaker, and Poet. She is an extraordinary storyteller who has written for prestigious institutions like the Smithsonian Institute, Disney, and National Geographic Traveler where she became the first female TV Correspondent for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and channels across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She's a passionate advocate for causes like the American Red Cross, National Youth Council, UNICEF, and inspiring young girls to embrace their unique narratives.

Lisa-Marie Berndt is from Berlin and studied art history and French language and literature in Munich and Paris and completed her bachelor’s degree with a thesis on the chef-d’oeuvre of the Beat Generation, Jay DeFeo’s monumental artwork „The Rose“. As an autodidact, she has continued to deepen her passion for the women of the Beat Generation. Currently, she is writing her master’s thesis in art history at the Technical University of Berlin on the Beat artists Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo and Deborah Remington in the context of the San Francisco art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. In parallel, she is working for the German art magazine WELTKUNST and as a gallery assistant for the Paris-based art gallery Géraldine Banier.

Constance Brennen is a poet from Chicago who studied the classics as an undergraduate and has a Master's in classical Greek. For the past 15 years, she has worked as an editor for international English education.

K.R. Morrison is a Bay Area rooted poet who since the pandemic, splits her time between San Francisco and a place she calls Mermaid Town, in Southern California. Morrison is a Pushcart Nominee for her poem, “Her Altar” and still enjoys features and podcasts for Cauldrons, her first poetry collection published by Paper Press. Her poetry appears in a variety of anthologies and publications, most recently in the “Beat not Beat Anthology”published by MoonTide Press.

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