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Katherine Hastings is the author of three full-length collections, most recently Shakespeare & Stein Walk Into a Bar (Spuyten Duyvil Press NYC, 2016).  Poet laureate emerita of Sonoma County, CA, Hastings edited Know Me Here — An Anthology of Poetry by Women; Digging Our Poetic Roots — Poems from Sonoma County; and What Redwoods Know — Poems from California State Parks.  Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Book of Forms — A Handbook of Poetics (University Press of New England).  She hosted WordTemple on NPR affiliate KRCB FM (2007 — 2017) and founded the WordTemple Poetry Series in Sonoma County (2006 — 2017). Following the October 2017 wildfires, Hastings moved with her partner to Western New York in early 2018 where she is working on her fourth collection. 

Howard Nelson grew up in New Jersey, moved to the Finger Lakes region in 1970, and stayed.  He taught for many years at Cayuga Community College, where he is now Professor of Humanities Emeritus. He is the author of Robert Bly:  An Introduction to the Poetry, and editor of Earth, My Likeness:  Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman, and On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell:  The Wages of Dying.  His poetry collections include Creatures, Bone Music, The Nap by the Waterfall, and most recently That Was Really Something (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2018).