Dane Ince is an internationally published poet, named Beat Poet Laureate for California, and hosts a weekly open mic – Time to Arrive, and founder of EYEPUBLISHEWE. 

Book: The Whole Existential Novel

Lesley Constable is the author of “Entry Point” and a poet/painter “…the making of poetry is an act of deep and reverent play.” This deeply held belief arises from many influences, and not presented in order here consists of Beat poetry, Jungian views, existentialism, transcendentalism, and visionary art. Lesley holds a B.A. in Arts Journalism and an M.F.A. in Arts Criticism. 

Book: A House Without Walls 

Mimi German is a poet and an activist/advocate for the houseless living in the Pacific Northwest and is the author of “Beneath the Gravel Weight of Stars.”

Book: Where Grasses Bend

John Angell Grant is a writer/director from Palo Alto, California. His short film “Two Stoners” won the award for “Best Indie Super Short Film” at the 8 & Halfilm Awards, a festival in honor of Fellini’s masterpiece “8 1/2.” John is the author of "Women and Religion in the Modern Drawing Room Plays of T.S. Eliot." And of 12 produced stage plays and a serialized novel “A Deadly Secret.”

Book: The Green Notebook

Martin Del Toro Gutierrez is an artist, world traveler from Sayulita, Mexico wrapping his arms around the nature of love in his first book of poems in Spanish and English “Naturalzela del Amor.”

Book: La Naturalzela del Amor