Candice Louisa Daquin is a Psychotherapist and writer living in America's Southwest. Originally from Europe, she made a career in the publishing sector before re-training in Psychotherapy and now divides her time between both. Daquin is author of her own poetry and prose and editor of many anthologies and multiple single author books. Daquin is currently Senior Editor at Indie Blu(e) Publishing. Editorial Partner for Blackbird Press. Poetry Editor with The Pine Cone Review and Parcham Literary Magazine and Writer-in-Residence for Borderless Journal. She regularly edits poetry and prose collections. Daquin edited the successful anthology; SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like, Poetry By Women For Women, which won Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards and was an Amazon #1 best seller. Likewise, Daquin co-edited We Will Not Be Silenced, which also became an Amazon #1 best seller. More recently Daquin co-edited The Kali Project, Invoking The Goddess Within, Indian Women Speak, which has become a worldwide success and won Finalist with NIEA. Her latest poetry collection, Tainted by the Same Counterfeit, was published in 2022 by Finishing Line Press.

Megha Sood is a Pushcart Nominated Award-Winning Poet, Editor, Author, and Literary Activist based in New Jersey, USA. She is an Associate Editor at MookyChick(UK), Life and Legends (USA), and Literary Partner in the project “Life in Quarantine'' with Stanford University, USA. Works featured in journals, including Poetry Society of New York, New York Public Library zine, NPR, WNYC Studio, PBS American Portrait, American Writers Review, Stanford Daily, Kissing Dynamite, Rising Phoenix Review, and many more.Blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.Tweets at @meghasood16

Co-Editor of anthologies ( “The Medusa Project”, Mookychick) and (“The Kali Project, Indie Blu(e) Press).“The Medusa Project” has been selected as a digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2023 as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX.

She is a recipient of Poet Fellowship 2021 MVICW (Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing), 2020 National Level Winner Spring Mahogany Lit Prize, and Three-Time State-level winner of NJ Poetry Contest. Recipient of “Certificate of Excellence” from Mayor, Stephen Fulop, Jersey City. New Jersey.

She is a member of the United Nations Association- US Chapter (UNA-USA), National League of American Pen Women ( NLAPW), and Women’s National Book Associations (WNBA).

Performing venues includes New York Poetry Festival, Paterson Poetry Festival, Nuyorican Cafe, Hudson County Community College, Historic Apple Tree House, Newark Arts Festival, Panorama International Literary Festival, FEMINEN Turkey Arts Festival, and many more.

Susi Bocks, writer/author/poet, has self-published two books - Feeling Human and Every Day I Pause. She is the Editor of The Short of It which has produced two volumes to date - The Sound of Brilliance and Reflections & Revelations. Bocks' has works published in the anthologies Through The Looking Glass - Reflecting on Madness and Chaos Within, As The World Burns, SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women and in VitaBrevis, Spillwords, Literary Yard, and other literary magazines. She was a Pushcart Prize Nominee in 2021 for her piece "Sweet Embrace" featured in Heart Beats - Publisher - Prolific Pulse. You can find her work at IWriteHer.com or follow on Twitter or Facebook.

Sarah Bigham reads, teaches, writes, and paints in Maryland where she lives with her kind chemist wife, three independent cats, and an unwieldy herb garden. Find her at www.sgbigham.com.