Jen Dupree is a librarian, assistant editor of The Masters Review, and former bookstore owner. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. Her work has appeared in December, Solstice, Wordpeace, On the Rusk and other places. She is the winner of the Writer’s Digest Fiction Contest for 2017, and a 2022 winner of a Maine Literary Award. She lives in Maine with her husband and a Portuguese Water Dog, (Pink) Floyd. 

Gary Rainford lives on Swan’s Island, Maine, year-round. A 2022 finalist for the Independent Publishers of New England Poetry
                                                                                                   Award, Gary’s third book, Adrift, tells the stories of his mother’s
                                                                                                   dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. 

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