Janice Townley Moore, who lives
in Hayesville, NC, is an Atlanta native and Associate Professor Emerita of
English at Young Harris College. Her poetry chapbook is Teaching the Robins (Finishing Line Press) and her work has
appeared in esteemed journals including The
Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Connecticut Review, Southern
Poetry Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and
numerous others. Among the anthologies that include her poetry are The Bedford Introduction to Literature
and three volumes of The Southern Poetry
Anthology (Contemporary Appalachia, Georgia, and North Carolina) from Texas
Review Press. Moore serves as the coordinator of the North Carolina Writers
Network poetry critique group, which meets at Tri-County Community College.
Robert Lee
Kendrick grew up in Illinois and Iowa, but now calls Clemson, South Carolina
home. After earning his M.A. from Illinois State University and his Ph.D. from
the University of South Carolina, he held a number of jobs, ranging from house
painter to pizza driver to grocery store worker to line cook. He now teaches.
Kendrick’s poems appear in Birmingham
Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Tar River Poetry,
Louisiana Literature, and elsewhere. His first full-length collection, What Once Burst With Brilliance, was
released in 2018 by Iris Press. His chapbook is Winter Skin (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2016).
R.R. Brooks