Paula Lyons was an award-winning Consumer Investigative Reporter who worked in both local and network television for 25 years, then plied those communication skills in to a new career as an Executive Coach, helping C-level executives all across the country, become more powerful and effective, communicating vision and strategy throughout their organizations. She did that work at Bates Communications in Wellesley, MA. Paula and her late husband Arnie Reisman moved full time to Martha’s Vineyard in 2011.

Steve Ewing is a dock builder living in Edgartown. He and his wife Claudia have two grown sons with growing families of their own. Steve is the first poet laureate of Edgartown and is also the town’s moderator. He has published two books of poetry: “Town Meeting Poems” and “Waterfront Poems”. He is currently working on his third collection tentatively titled, “I Remember”.

A grateful member of the Cleaveland House Poets, Chris has been writing his unique version of story poems for years on the island he loves. He has one book to his credit, "A Whither in the Twile", hoping for a second.Chris visits his ocean daily and declares his love for her, always waiting for the gift of the next poem that is given.

In 2008 Fan published “YOU" selected poems and "KNOT: A LIFE” a memoir. In 2016 "EASINESSES FOUND" poems and paintings was published. It received special recognition from the Washington Independent Review of Poetry and Grace Cavieleri, creator of the Poet and the Poem series. In 2020 “The Berth” was published. (Details below) Fan taught English and poetry in Washington, DC, New Haven, CT, New York City, NY, and Martha's Vineyard, MA. She was selected to be the 2nd Poet Laureate of West Tisbury, MA She worked three years at the Dukes County House of Correction, where she published two volumes of poetry by the inmates. She is now facilitator of the Cleaveland House Poetry Workshop, the oldest continuous poetry group in the USA. Fan, also a painter, had a one person show at Featherstone Center for the Arts, and at The Free Library of West Tisbury, and the Chilmark Library. Fan and Arnie Reisman co edited a collection of Judith Neeld’s poetry 2019 . Judith’s work has been celebrated many times on the Vineyard. In 2020, Fan published “The Berth: American Themes in Poems and Images” It is a conversation between a contemporary poet and a passenger on the Mayflower 400 years ago answering the question: what has happened to the dreams and experiment in democracy between then and now in America.

Liz Kelner Pozen is an artist and retired psychotherapist. She lives in Boston and Martha’s Vineyard. Learn more about or contact Liz at lizkelnerpozen.com.

Rose Styron is a poet, journalist, translator and international human rights activist. She's published four volumes of poetry From Summer to Summer, Thieves’ Afternoon (Viking), By Vineyard Light (Rizzoli), and Fierce Day (Freissen Press), plus a book of translations of Russian poetry for Viking. She traveled widely for Amnesty International and other human rights organizations, chairing AIUSA’s National Advisory Council, PEN's Freedom to Write Committee and the RFK Human Rights Award. She is currently on the advisory board of Johns Hopkins Hospital Health and Human Rights, and is a board member of the Paris Review, the Academy of American Poets, and the Association to Benefit Children. A variety of her articles and poems have appeared in national periodicals in the USA and around the world. In 2009 and 2010 Rose was a resident fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and its Carr Center for Human Rights. She has written introductions to Letters to My Father (LSU Press) and The Selected Letters of William Styron (Random House), which she edited. Recently, her introduction to Dinner in Camelot and an essay on Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (Vol. 50, 2017) were published. Since 2003 Rose has annually co-chaired with Meryl Streep Poetry and the Creative Mind on stage at Lincoln Center on behalf of the Academy of American Poets. Rose’s newest volume of poems Fierce Day was published in 2015. Her memoir Beyond This Harbor (Knopf) was released on June 13th of 2023.