Ace Boggess is author of eight books of poetry, most recently Tell Us How to Live (Fernwood Press, 2025) and My Pandemic / Gratitude List (Mōtus Audāx Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Hanging Loose, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes, watches Criterion films, and tries to stay out of trouble. His first short-story collection, Always One Mistake, has just been released from Running Wild Press.

Ellen Warfield is a painter and photographer whose eye was trained by looking slowly. She spent over fifteen years shooting still life as a commercial photographer in New York — studying objects, light, and arrangement with the kind of patience that only comes from doing it for a living — before turning to painting. That training carries directly into the work: her paintings are observational moments, quiet and often melancholy, where the objects themselves — books stacked on a table, glasses caught mid-pour — are less the point than what they seem to hold just beneath the surface. Born and raised in New York City, she spent nearly two decades in New York's art world, including seven years at Sotheby's, before relocating to a seaport village in Connecticut. In 2025 she completed her third art residency, deepening a practice built on close, unhurried attention to the everyday. Her work carries traces of both chapters of her life: a photographer's discipline of seeing, and a slower, tidal sense of time found in coastal New England. She lives in Stonington, CT with her son.