Kathleen Adcock is a former recreation therapist at Maryland state psychiatric hospitals. She holds a BA in sociology with a minor in English, and an MA Equivalent in therapeutic recreation. She has trained in classical voice and guitar while taking graduate classes in creative writing at McDaniel College, and poetry workshops at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. Her poems have appeared in many publications including: The Baltimore Review, Wild Onions, Not Just Air, Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review, September Eleven: Maryland Voices, and 100 Poets Against the War. She has participated in Writing the Body since 2001, and yearly, in the Arts for Peace and Justice Exhibition in Harrisburg, PA. Kathleen is the author of six chapbooks.

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Mary Terchek retired in 2002 after after thirty plus years teaching English writing and literature courses in a variety of settings. Although she occasionally wrote poetry and often taught it, she did not pursue it until retirement. She writes poetry to explore memory, experiences and, most especially, feelings.

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Virginia Bell’s poetry has appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly and The Innisfree Poetry Journal. She has been a featured poet in Anne Becker’s “Women.Body.Love” program at the Kefa Café in Silver Spring, Maryland, in Rhonda Williford’s poetry series at the Washington, D.C. Public Library, and at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. After earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Maryland, Virginia taught as an adjunct professor with the English Department at Georgetown University from 1997-2006. She has published scholarly articles on Rosario Castellanos, Eduardo Galeano, and Leslie Marmon Silko. As a pedagogy scholar, she wrote the Instructor’s Resource Manual to accompany Randall Bass and Joy Young’s Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2003. After living in Takoma Park, MD for many years, she has recently moved to Chicago, IL.