Dan Waters has spent his entire adult life on Martha’s Vineyard, doing one odd job or another. He currently works at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Dan's poems appear mostly in non-poetry places like Yankee Magazine and the Cape and Islands NPR station. He was West Tisbury’s first town poet laureate, and now he’s the town moderator. In between town meetings or poetry readings, he’s also been known to write a song or two.

Michael West is a poet, songwriter and novelist whose new book of poems, just out from Sepiessa Press, is titled When Stuff Is Not Enough.

Along with a Masters in Liberal Studies and an MBA Andrea has a BA in English Literature and taught English Lit for 10 years. During which time she created and taught courses including Pop Poetry, Literature of The Minorities, Humanities and Science Fiction.
She has been writing poetry since high school and studied at The Skidmore Summer Institute, The Joiner Center at U Mass, and the Cape Cod Writers Program.
She is a member of the Cleaveland House Poets, the MV Poets Collective and the MV Poetry Society
Her recent work was published in the anthologies: Cleaveland House Poets 50 Years and the Martha’s Vineyard Poets’ Collective. Her work has also appeared locally in the Vineyard Gazette and the MV Times.

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.