Jennifer began writing poetry for publication while an English major at Union College. She earned a masters degree from Fairfield University and attended the Iowa Writers Workshop. She is the author of two poetry books, Lost and Found, Rhyming Verse Honoring African American Heroes (2006) and Perennial Secrets, Poetry & Prose (2003) which was nominated for the Connecticut Book Awards. Her work is included in Vineyard Poets, The Gay Head Light House Anthology, and in numerous literary publications. She has been featured on National Public Radio's Faith Middleton Show, appeared on Connecticut Public Television and on the Ivanhoe Broadcasting Smart Woman program. She was a featured speaker at the University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writer's House, and at many other colleges and universities. A member of Cleveland House Poets, Jennifer has recently finished her third poetry collection. When she isn’t writing poetry she is working on her debut novel to be published next year.

Clark Myers is an active contributor to the Martha's Vineyard poetry community. He lives near Vineyard Haven harbor with his wife and children. To highlight the benefits of poetry today, he quotes the poet W. S. Merwin: "Poetry is really to say what can't be said. And that's why people turn to it in these moments."

Don McLagan is an entrepreneur and poet. He has been a founder or executive in five tech companies in the Boston area, and is now a mentor to tech start-up CEOs. His poems have appeared in Cleaveland House Poets: 50 Years, the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette and Boston.com. He is a member of the Concord Poetry Center, the Cleaveland House Poets, the Martha’s Vineyard Poets Collective, and is a member of the Board of Directors of MassPoetry.com. Don lives and writes on Chappaquiddick and Sudbury Massachusetts. His latest book of poems, TUG AT THE KNOT, will be out this spring.

Arnie Reisman lives on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with his wife, former television consumer reporter and executive coach, Paula Lyons. In October 2014 he was named Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate for a two-year term. He is a member of the Martha’s Vineyard Poetry Society and the Cleaveland House Poets. His first book of poems, Clara Bow Died For Our Sins, was published in July, 2015 (Summerset Press). He is also a columnist for the weekly Vineyard Gazette, a playwright, a filmmaker and a radio performer. His dark stage comedy, Not Constantinople, had its world premiere at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse in June, 2015, directed by MJ Bruder Munafo. Since the radio program’s debut in 1996, along with his wife, he has been a regular panelist on the weekly NPR comedy quiz show, Says You! Among his film credits are Hollywood On Trial (the Blacklist era), which received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, The Other Side of the Moon (Apollo astronaut program), which he co-produced for PBS with Mickey Lemle, and The Powder & the Glory (the Helena Rubinstein-Elizabeth Arden business rivalry), which he co-produced for PBS with Ann Carol Grossman. A theatrical musical based on this film is now being developed.