Laura is a journalist, photographer, and poet who lives year-round in West Tisbury with her husband and two children. Her poems have been published in a couple of extremely obscure literary journals and have twice won the “Best Of” award for poetry at the annual Eckerd College Writers’ Conference. Several years ago, she was one of five winners of a local poetry competition that resulted in the publication of a chapbook entitled “Island Quintet.”

Donald has lived on the Vineyard off and on all his life. He published his first poem in the Vineyard Gazette, in 1976. He works as an editor and occasionally leads poetry workshops. His book of poems, Driving Lessons, was published in 2008. He has a poem in the forthcoming Cape Cod Review, also a poem on WCAI's Sunday Poetry series.

JIll is a psychiatric nurse, a poet and a playwright. Her play "The Fifty-Minute Hour" was first produced as part of Island Theater Workshop's "Pick of the Crop" presentation and was recently produced at ArtSpace and filmed at MVTV as part of the "Brief Plays On a Small Stage" collection. She is currently working on a play about Spalding Gray. Jill has been writing poetry most of her life. She received an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. She has been facilitating a poetry group for the Edgartown Council on Aging for six years and this February and March will be teaching, for a third year, a five-week mid-winter poetry class at the West Tisbury Library. She grew up in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont but has lived here in Vineyard Haven year-round for sixteen years with her husband, five dogs and lots of books.

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.