Ken Gosse prefers writing metric, rhyming, light verse. First published in First Literary Review-East in 2016 and since then by Pure Slush, Spillwords, Written Tales Magazine, and others including print anthologies. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ.

Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware and a widely published poet. Even though many years have passed, every summer brings reminders of the death of her mother.