Bo Young is a retired publisher of White Crane, a quarterly, reader-written journal of gay wisdom and culture. He lived in New York City for 25 years, and now lives in Upstate New York with his husband, and a clowder of barn cats, on the Vermont border.
Frank Lehner a poet, award-winning book designer, folk artist, and playwright out of Pittsburgh, Pa. His poetry has appeared in diverse periodicals, and his plays have been staged in Pittsburgh and New York City. His full-length book of poems, Mrs. Nussbaum’s Monkey, is from Bottom Dog Press (2025). You can find him at franklehner.com
Judith Vollmer’s The Pavese Stone, her seventh full-length collection of poetry, was published by Alice James Books in March 2026. She lives in Pittsburgh’s Nine Mile Run watershed.
Nancy Koerbel writes poems and essays and teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and is a former recipient of a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her work appeared most recently in One and Redactions. She is working to become a certified Pennsylvania Master Naturalist.
