Nan Byrne is a poet, writer, and former Head of Development in television production. She lives in Edgartown and is fond of craft beer, the Pretenders, and baking vintage cakes. The author of two books, her poems and stories have appeared in a variety of literary magazines including Michigan Quarterly Review, Fiction Southeast, Canadian Woman Studies, and the Seattle Review, among others. She’s a recipient of grants from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, and has won awards for her screenplays. She’s currently at work on a documentary about Margaret Fuller, an early feminist and the first female journalist.

Holly St. John Bergon has published poems in The Sewanee Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Ploughshares, Terra Nova, College English, ISLE: as in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, and elsewhere. With her husband Frank Bergon, she has published translations of the Spanish poets Antonio Gamaneda, José Ovejero, Xavier Queipo, and Violeta C. Rangel in New European Poets and The European Constitution in Verse. For many years, she taught courses in English composition, modern poetry, and creative writing at the State University of New York-Duchess Community College. She lives in Oak Bluffs.

Barbara Peckham has been a secretary and editor of the Society and woman’s page of the New Haven Journal Courier in Connecticut, a radio and television commercial writer in Albany, NY, and taught fifth grade for 24 years in Marcellus, NY, near Syracuse. She started writing in earnest after she and her husband Douglas retired and came to live on Martha’s Vineyard, where she found great encouragement from the poetry community and Pathways. She has two poetry books out, “A Jar of Summer”, and “Sing Spring”. At present she’s working on a novel, “Forgotten But Not Gone”. She has three children who live with their spouses in Omaha, Houston and Chicago, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Peter Ledermann is currently owner and Director of Engineering at the Soundsmith Corporation. He has spent much of his life inventing, as well as designing and manufacturing all types of high-end audio equipment. He also worked for many years at the IBM T. J. Watson research center, a “think tank” located in Westchester county NY. His interests include philosophy, humor, all forms of science including metaphysics, travel, writing short stories and poetry, but most of all gathering with friends. He is a member of the Cleaveland House Poets and has published one book of his poems, illustrated with his own water-color paintings. His poetry has been published numerous times in Cross Currents magazine, and appeared in the most recent Cleaveland house poetry anthology.

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.