Mary Ellen Redmond’s poems have appeared in The Drunken Boat, Free State Review, Comstock Review, Cape Cod Review, Rattle and The Cortland Review, but the publication she is most proud of is the poem tattooed on her son’s ribcage. A former slam poet, she represented Cape Cod at the National Poetry Slam Competition in Providence, RI. She has been featured twice on WCAI’s Poetry Sundays and her interview with poet Greg Orr was featured in The Drunken Boat. Her poem “Fifty-Six Days” earned a Best of the Net Nomination in 2016. She recently placed second in the 2024 Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest judged by Marge Piercy. The Ocean Effect, her second chapbook, was published in 2014 by Finishing Line Press

JOHNCARL graduated from Nantucket High School. From poetry to novels, news articles to screenplays, JohnCarl is happy to write just about anything. His writing has been published in the Nantucket Current, N Magazine and Nantucket About Town and his films have been screened at several festivals including the Nantucket Film Festival. He is entering his final year at Williams College, where he is pursuing a double major in English and Political Science.

Brook Scott is an emerging poet and minister based in Marin County, California. With a deep appreciation for haiku and spirituality, Brook crafts poems that reflect the beauty and wonder of creation. Her work invites readers to pause, reflect, and find meaning in the moment.

Ollie Davis is a sophomore studying in New York City at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. While their focus is film, Ollie writes in a variety of styles including screenwriting, poetry, and creative prose. Ollie has recently been published in the Eleven and a Half literary magazine. Ollie dedicates their poetry reading to their mom and wishes her a happy birthday.

Among other impressive titles and engagements over the years, throughout his career, he has performed as an amateur singer, symphony and choral conductor, and pianist. He has been a philanthropist of the arts wherever he has lived. His editorship of poetry stems from his deep friendship with Douglas Lowry, the author of Pomes: Writing Like There’s No Tomorrow, winner of the 2024 best poetry book award (finalist for best book design) in the “Next Generation IndieBook Awards” competition of the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group. Ralph and his wife Nancy have been seasonal residents of Nantucket for 16 years.

Ole received his B.A. in English, St. Olaf College; M.T.S. in History of Religions, Harvard; M.Arch from University of California, Berkeley. His poetry has been published in a variety of literary journals, newspapers, an anthology of Norwegian/American Writing, a chapbook, and a book of poetry related to Nantucket (The Nantucket Collection). He is a registered architect with completed projects in NY, CT, MN, WA, and MA. Before he studied architecture and knowing very little about construction other than making forts as a kid, he built a house on Nantucket with the help of family and friends; all the doors, windows, bricks in the fireplace, and the kitchen sink (later replaced) were from the Nantucket dump. He and his wife Mary divide their time between Virginia and Nantucket.

His father taught cryptography after working with Turing’s bombe at Bletchley Park during WWII. His mother was an oil painter who studied with Emile Albert Gruppé in her teens. So the science of deciphering gibberish into plain text somehow meshes with impressionistic imagery in his writing (and painting). He has 9 collections of poetry, and lives on island with his wife, Karol Lindquist, a nationally-recognized basketmaker.