Summer Brenner is the author of a dozen books of fiction and poetry. Her story “Identity Theft” can be found in the recent anthology Berkeley Noir, Akashic Books, 2020. The Missing Lover will be published in 2021 by Spuyten Duyvil Press.

Denise Leto is an interdisciplinary poet, dance dramaturge, and editor. Her current book project is an ecopoetic exploration of the San Francisco Bay entitled, The Baylands Poetry Project: Aimless Wandering with Instructions from which an essay and poem were published in the journal, About Place: Practices of Hope. Her poetry/prose collaboration centered around the Villanelle with the dancer/writer Sima Belmar recently appeared in InDance magazine. Denise’s book, Your Body is Not a Shark, was the poetry for a collaborative dance performance. Her work has appeared in numerous publications most recently in the journals Rogue Agent and Mollyhouse. She recently completed her poetry manuscript The Body is a Wild Summons.

Owen Hill is a poet, novelist, and provocateur. He is the author of the poetry book A Walk Among the Bogus; the noir thrillers, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double; and co-editor of Raymond Chandler's Annotated Big Sleep. Out this summer is Berkeley Noir, which he has co-edited with writer Jerry Thompson, and is available online from Moe's Books. He lives in Oakland, with his partner, the artist, Liz Leger, and his cat, the proofreading feline, Zelda.

Carol Jameson is a writer, swimmer, and pianist. She is the author of The Kaiser Stories and It Builds in the Brain and has recently finished a surrealist novel, Adam and Leonora. Currently, she keeps a journal on her Pandemic Pacings at https://walkwithcj.blogspot.com She teaches at Golden Gate University and lives in Richmond CA, with her naughty orange tabby teen, Clara.