Nano has spent most of his life along the I-15 corridor. He lives in the red rocks of Cedar City and occasionally works on his own writing. He is an independent grant writer and editorial/creative consultant.

Katherine Indermaur is the author of I|I (Seneca Review Books), winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, and two chapbooks. Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, New Delta Review, Ninth Letter, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, CO.

Samantha Samakande is a Zimbabwean poet currently based out of Bloomfield, NJ, where she resides with her husband. She is a graduate of Allegheny College. Her work has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Sugar House Review, The Indianapolis Review, Hobart, and Gordon Square Review, among other journals. She was the second-place winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2020 Award for New Poets.

Clarissa was so inspired by her high school English teacher (who is also a poet), she followed that same path. She lives in Richmond, VA, where she writes poetry and also teaches yoga. Her first book is Building Alexandria (2021 Lily Poetry Review Books). In 2018, she received her MFA in poetry from Lesley University.

Star Coulbrooke is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Logan City, UT. Her poetry mentor was the late Ken Brewer, former Utah Poet Laureate, who got her a job teaching advanced poetry writing. In that class, the best poetry writing class of all time, were future Sugar founders Natalie, Nano, and Jerry. Star lives in Smithfield with her artist/carpenter/musician partner and two kittens. Her most recent poetry collections are Thin Spines of Memory, Both Sides from the Middle, and City of Poetry.

Neil has lived and worked in London, Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai in finance, now coaching as well as teaching mindful meditation. His work has been published in the mighty Sugar House Review as well as Palette Poetry, Bombay Gin, The Chiron Review, and others. If and when he publishes a collection he plans to title it Icing on the Coffin. 

Cassidy is an ice cream enthusiast with a reading habit. She holds a BA in creative writing from SUU, where the good people of the Kolob Canyon Review let her lead the 2021 issue's production. Currently, a scruffy but elegant black dog runs her life, and she is better for it. You can find her work in the Kolob Canyon Review and the Southern Quill.