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Kim Noriega, Editor

Kim Noriega is the author of Naming the Roses, released in April 2024 by Aim Higher, Inc., and Name Me, published in 2010 by Fortunate Daughter Press. She is an award-winning poet, creative nonfiction writer, and teacher. Kim won the San Miguel de Allende Literary Sala Flash Nonfiction Prize and has been a finalist for both the Edna St. Vincent Millay and Joy Harjo Poetry Prizes. She is a teaching artist and mentor with The Poetry Barn and an expert consultant in adult and family literacy through the Pacific Library Partnership. She lives in San Diego with her husband, Ernie, and six cats, five of whom were once feral. More at Kimnoriega.com

Lissa Kiernan, Publisher

Lissa Kiernan’s second collection of poetry, The Whispering Wall, won Homebound Publications 2020 Poetry Prize and was a semi-finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize. Her first book of prose, Glass Needles & Goose Quills, won the Nautilus Gold for lyric prose in 2018 and took first place in the Independent Book Awards’ cross-genre category. Two Faint Lines in the Violet, her first collection of poetry, was a finalist for both the Forword Indies Book of the Year and Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book by an Independent Press in 2014. She is the founding director of The Poetry Barn, a literary organization that houses a private poetry lending library and sponsors workshops, readings, and retreats and AIM Higher, a nonprofit that celebrates the arts. She lives in the Catskill Mountains next to the Ashokan Reservoir’s lower east basin with her husband, Chris and a fluctuating number of felines.