Although Maryrose Larkin lives in Tucson, AZ, her heart lives in Portland, OR. She is the author of several books and chapbooks, including The Identification of Ghosts (Chax Press), The Name of this Intersection is Frost (Shearsman), A Monster’s Topic Sentence (Magificent Field) and the newly published Bluebird Grift (Sonorous Anchorite). Maryrose was a founding member of Spare Room, and currently serves as a director of Tucson’s POG reading series.

David Weiss is a poet, publisher, & arts organizer living in Tucson Arizona.

 David founded Sonorous Anchorite (2021), a not-for-profit literary arts press dedicated to publishing “innovative writing that tends toward the poem”. As part of Sonorous Anchorite hebegan A Moveable Beast, a poetical cabaret cultivating curious intersections between the varied practices of poets, musicians, artists, etc. He also volunteers as a book designer for ChaxPress.

 David served as the Assistant Director at Chax Press & as a board member of POG, a community poetry & arts organizationfrom 2019-2022. His recent poems have appeared in the journals BlazeVOX, Alienocene, e·ratio, & Word for/Word. His book-length poem In Memoriam: in enquiry was published by ChaxPress in early 2022.