Stephen Anderson is a Milwaukee poet and translator whose work has appeared in Southwest Review, Latin American Literature Today, Verse Wisconsin, and numerous other print and online journals. Many of his poems have been featured on the Milwaukee NPR affiliate WUWM Lake Effect Program. Stephen is the author of three chapbooks, as well as two full length collections, In the Garden of Angels and Demons and The Dream Angel Plays The Cello. In the summer of 2013, six of his poems formed the text for a chamber music song cycle entitled The Privileged Secrets of the Arch performed by musicians from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and an opera singer. Stephen's new full-length poetry book, High Wire, was published in late 2021 by Kelsay Books.

https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/stephen_anderson

Brenda Cárdenas is a Milwaukee poet and teacher. She is the author of several chapbooks, two edited anthologies, and the full-length collection Boomerang (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2009). Her most recent collection of poetry is titled Trace and was published in April 2023 by Red Hen Press. Cárdenas served as the Milwaukee poet laureate from 2010 to 2012. In 2014, the Library of Congress recorded a reading of her work for their Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers. She currently teaches in the creative writing program at UWM.

https://poets.org/poet/brenda-cardenas

Bill Murtaugh is a local writer of poetry, prose, and plays. Bill has inhabited and read at many coffeehouses and poetry venues in our fair city, and has been a much loved reader at The Coffee House for decades. The poet Antler invites us to read Bill's Autumn Runs to Darkness and to "...discover secrets of survival and tenderness from one of Milwaukee's longtime lifelong poets."