Deborah Cooper is the author of five poetry collections, most recently "Under the Influence of Lilacs" published by Clover Valley Press. She co-edited the anthologies "Beloved on the Earth: Poems of Grief & Gratitude" and "The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home" (Holy Cow! Press). She was the 2012-2014 Duluth Poet Laureate. Ellie Schoenfeld is a poet from Duluth, Minnesota. Her most recent book is "The Dark Honey: New & Used Poems" (Clover Valley Press), and she has collaborated with various musicians to produce poetry/music CDs. She was co-founder of Poetry Harbor, served on the board of Spirit Lake Poetry Series, and is grateful to the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council for past fellowship support. Ann Floreen Niedringhaus's poems have appeared in numerous regional and national literary journals and in her two chapbooks, "Life Suspended" and "Parallel to the Horizon." She is preparing her first full-length book, "That Unexplored Terrain." Ann valued her experience of co-teaching poetry writing to inmates at the St. Louis County Jail with Deborah Cooper.