Fan Ogilvie, poet and teacher, lives on Martha's Vineyard where she was chosen Poet Laureate of West Tisbury in 2009. In that role she created the Promising Poet Prize for MV Regional High Schoolers, and a program for inmates at the Dukes County House of Correction. Both endeavors resulted in books representing the participants. Her latest collection of poems and paintings, EASINESSES FOUND, came out in 2015 and is available at Bunch of Grapes and Amazon. Her previous book of poetry with a memoir "YOU" and "KNOT: A LIFE" was published in 2008. She is a member of The Cleaveland House Poets, along with Lee McCormack and yours truly. She founded the Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry Board & Reading Program in Washington DC serving as chair for 9 years. And she was a member of the board of the Poetry Society of America in New York City.

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.

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.

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.